Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Surviving Malakow shaft building and steel headframe of the former Oranje-Nassau I mine, now the Mijnmonument Oranje-Nassau I, a rijksmonument open monthly to visitors.

Preserved headframe and flooded open-cast workings at Finland's oldest copper mine, a nationally significant heritage site in Salo.

Forty-metre concrete headframe of 1970 standing over Falun's former main copper mine shaft, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Former Oberhausen hard coal colliery site, with several listed surviving structures including a headframe at Schacht 3 and a winding tower at Schacht 4, partly redeveloped as a park following the 1999 Landesgartenschau.

Former Oberharz lead, copper and silver ore mine closed 1930, with surviving UNESCO-listed water-wheel chambers open to visitors.

Disused lead and fluorspar mine near Ashover with surviving headframe, winder, and cage remaining in situ at a private site.

Former copper mine and the world's largest open-cast copper workings in the 18th century, now an open-access heritage trail and SSSI on the multicoloured summit of Anglesey.

Former deep colliery site with Grade II* listed headframes and engine hall, now partially redeveloped into community park with housing conversion under way.

Former potash shaft at Sondershausen with a 44-metre Jugendstil steel headframe inspired by the Eiffel Tower, listed since 1969 and now housing a mining archive and exhibition.

Former antimony-pyrite mining deposit at Kolársky vrch near Pezinok in the Malé Karpaty, one of Slovakia’s largest hydrothermal antimony deposits.