Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Asturian coal shaft at Sama de Langreo, now housing the Archivo Histórico de Hunosa and the Brigada Central de Salvamento Minero, with geothermal and biomass energy installations.

Closed Asturian coal shaft whose 1933 steel headframe, expanded in 1963, and a group of classically styled pithead buildings survive intact at Vega, Langreo.

Declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 2013, the Pozu San Luis in the Valle de Samuño now forms the centrepiece of the Ecomuseo Minero Valle de Samuño, with its intact modernist engine house and robloned steel headframe fully open to visitors.

Historically significant closed coal shaft at El Entrego, unique as the first mine in Spain managed by its workers, with restored buildings housing a workers' movement museum project.

Protected former coal shaft complex at La Rabaldana, San Andrés de Turón, the first vertical coal mine of the Caudal valley and now a cultural heritage site.

Closed Asturian coal shaft at El Entrego whose restored headframe and distinctive engine house with stepped pediment now house workshops of the Fundación Comarcas Mineras.

Closed Asturian coal shaft at La Güeria de Carrocera, now abandoned after a post-mining enterprise failed, retaining its modernist combined services building and headframe.

Abandoned black coal mine complex at Sečovlje in Slovenian Istria, closed 1972, with decaying surface buildings beside the Sečovlje saltpans.

Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum, a free open-air museum on the East Lothian coast preserving the last Cornish beam engine in situ in Scotland.

Former Ruhr hard coal colliery at Dortmund-Lindenhorst with a surviving listed Malakowturm, now adapted for cultural use.