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sites
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872 – Salina Turda
Museum site
Celebrated Romanian salt mine turned world-renowned subterranean tourist attraction with massive underground chambers and amusement facilities.
623 – Grube Sauberg
Museum site - headframe and associated buildings
Active visitor mine and mineralogical museum in the Erzgebirge, with a working headframe, shaft descent, and nearly 800 years of documented tin mining history.
592 – Kaliwerk Zielitz — Schacht 1
Operational site - headframe and extensive buildings
Active kali mine shaft at Zielitz, Germany's largest and one of the world's largest potash operations, with the 70-metre Schacht 1 winding tower functioning as the principal ore-hoisting headframe.
593 – Kaliwerk Zielitz — Schacht 2
Operational site
Active kali mine shaft at Zielitz serving as the principal man-riding and materials shaft of Germany's largest potash operation, with one of the largest shaft cages in Europe.
630 – Kalibergwerk Bleicherode — Schacht Althans I
Complete mine site
Former Prussian fiscal potash mine at Bleicherode East, with the complete Schacht I surface complex surviving and accessible, now operated for underground industrial waste disposal.
520 – Schachtanlage Asse II
Repurposed site
Former salt mine and former repository for approximately 126,000 containers of radioactive waste at Remlingen-Semmenstedt, now managed by the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) as the site of a legally mandated, technically unprecedented programme t
518 – Kalibergwerk Bergmannssegen-Hugo
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Former potash mine at Lehrte-Ilten, closed in 1994, with the listed Schacht Bergmannssegen headframe surviving on a site where K+S continues to manufacture fertiliser from imported raw materials and the underground workings have been flooded since 1998.
633 – Kaliwerk Bernterode — Schächte Bernterode I/II
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Surviving headframe, shaft hall, pithead baths, and machine house of the former Deutsche Kaliwerke Bernterode Schacht Preußen, with the site now under consideration for reuse as part of a new potash project.
Sealed former potash shaft site of Schacht Sachsen (Bernterode II) in Bernterode-Schacht, where above-ground structures were largely destroyed in the July 1945 munitions explosion.
639 – Gewerkschaft Buttlar
Repurposed site
Former uncompleted potash shaft site at Buttlar in the Ulstertal, where a tübbing collapse killed six miners in 1913 and sinking was halted in 1914; surviving surface structures now serve agricultural and commercial uses.