Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former hard coal ventilation shaft near Walpershofen in Heusweiler, sunk in the 1970s by the Grube Ensdorf as an ausziehender Wetterschacht after the Dilsburg site was superseded, and closed in 2012.

Former Summerlee Iron Works site in Coatbridge, now the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, preserving Lanarkshire's industrial and mining heritage.

Europe's largest gold mine, an active underground operation near Kiistala in northern Finnish Lapland, operated by Agnico Eagle.

Grade II listed early twentieth-century private colliery headstock and winding house surviving in woodland at Swanwick, Derbyshire.

Scheduled Monument with surviving Victorian engine house and octagonal chimney from the deepest shaft in the Shropshire orefield, managed by Shropshire Mines Trust at Tankerville.

Surviving reinforced concrete headframe of the Mary Pit preserved within Lochore Meadows Country Park as a scheduled monument.

Former Ruhr hard coal colliery at Lünen-Brambauer, with a surviving headframe at Schacht 4 bearing the Colani-Ei and converted to the LÜNTEC technology centre.

Former anthracite colliery site redeveloped as Zip World Tower adventure attraction, retaining original mining infrastructure on the Rhigos mountain range.

Former silver, cobalt, and uranium mine at Zschorlau, whose 18-metre 1888 iron Fördergerüst — the oldest surviving iron headframe in the western Erzgebirge — stands as a listed monument and Flächennaturdenkmal at the northern edge of the village.

Prominent mine headframe at the active Tytyri limestone mine in Lohja, adjoining a public underground heritage attraction.