Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Disused iron ore shaft site on Grubeveien, within the historic Neskilen iron ore mining district of Arendal, Norway.

Active deep underground polymetallic mine at Kristineberg, Malå Municipality, with ore production since 1940; now reaching depths of 1,350 metres.

Active underground polymetallic mine in the Boliden area, Skellefteå Municipality; Sweden's deepest mine, reaching 1,500 metres depth.

France's last active underground salt mine, extracting rock salt at 160 metres depth near Nancy, open to guided public visits since 2018.

Closed open-cast pit and demolished headframe tower of the Vehka area within the former Kotalahti nickel-copper mine, Leppävirta.

Former Saar hard coal colliery at Saarbrücken-Klarenthal, operating today as an open visitor mine with listed 1915 headframe, preserved 1916/17 steam winding engine, and 800 metres of active underground workings.

Former hard coal shaft site in Hohndorf near Oelsnitz, part of the Steinkohlen-AG Bockwa-Hohndorf-Vereinigtfeld from 1872, whose Schacht I was deepened to 1,200 metres in 1942 as the Rudolf-Breitscheid-Schacht — briefly the deepest coal shaft in Europe —

Preserved post-war anthracite headframe at Susville, labelled Patrimoine en Isère, with surviving pithead buildings and miners' housing on the former Villaret colliery site.

Grade II listed steel headframe at Vivian's Shaft, Great Condurrow Mine, preserved and maintained by the Carn Brea Mining Society as an active training site.

Closed brown coal mine shaft at Handlová, site of Slovakia's worst modern mining disaster on 10 August 2009.