History Main / AbandonedMine

%%* One of these shows up (possibly two) in the forgettable ''Film/{{Broken Arrow|1996}}''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

It may or may not be specified what was mined there in the first place, and [[MinecartMadness mine cart rides]] may or may not be available. In an AcceptableBreakFromReality, even if the mine was shuttered years ago, an emergency lighting system or lanterns are still available (without this convention, abandoned mine scenes would be too dark for the characters or audience to see anything).

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': There's one of these in the mountain containing the Stone Nest that was used to excavate Meridian's largest deposit of light crystals before Phobos returned to the Mogriffs the mountain his great-grandmother conquered from them. [[spoiler:While fleeing from the [[SuperPersistentPredator Frostbiter]], Vera and three of her friends end up in the mines through a ventilation tunnel. A squad of Phobos loyalist and Shadowkhan led by Jade chase them through the tunnels as they get nearer the Mogriffs' nest. At one point, the intruders are able to escape from [[AxCrazy Tyrian]] by weaponizing the explosive coal dust.]]

* {{Subverted}} in ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}.'' With TheScrounger Rocky's willingness to run down even the signage at Sable Stone and Quarry, to say nothing of the shed that becomes an impromptu garage for his car, it seems at first like he knows a perfect abandoned staging area for a defensive battle with his pursuers, HiredGuns from the Marigold Gang. But his exploration of the outbuildings and subsequent ConstructionVehicleRampage involve suspiciously new equipment. Rocky's following passive-aggressive chat with [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub speakeasy]] patron Wick Sable heavy implies, and a [[TheStinger double still]] during the credits [[BrickJoke confirms]] that Rocky's affinity for property damage and antipathy for Wick in particular grant an ability to totally destroy a presently operating quarry with no regrets in the slightest.

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* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': There's one of these in the mountain containing the Stone Nest that was used to excavate Meridian's largest deposit of light crystals before Phobos returned to the Mogriffs the mountain his great-grandmother conquered from them. [[spoiler:While fleeing from the [[SuperPersistentPredator Frostbiter]], Vera and three of her friends end up in the mines through a ventilation tunnel.]]

* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', the four find a map of Boidan Mine. When George expresses skepticism that they would want to waste time going to a mine, he's told that those old mines are full of adventure and treasure. This one in particular must have something interesting because it takes a rare and expensive jump gem to get there. Ultimately the four do go there, but they never make it into the mine because they discover that another party of adventurers has beaten them there. They simply wait for the adventurers to emerge with their spoils and hilarity ensues.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': In [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355838 "A Hairy Situation"]], Ami is expanding an abandoned gold mine for the habitation of over 8000 people.

* In ''VideoGame/{{BroodStar}}'', the Caverns level is a set of manmade mines that have been taken over by a HordeOfAlienLocusts.

* ''Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo'' CatchPhrase: "What's that Skippy? The kids are trapped down the old mine shaft, '''again'''?"

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' features the locale known as the Lanayru Mining Facility, which had been abandoned for several hundred years. The minerals that had been extracted there, Timeshift Stones, remain scattered throughout the mines and desert. When struck, these stones cause a temporal effect that sends a part of the area back in time to when it was not so abandoned.

* ''Film/TheEvilThatMenDo''. Creator/CharlesBronson plays a hitman sent to kill a TortureTechnician whom he lures out by kidnapping his sister, ostensibly for ransom. He sets up the ransom exchange in an abandoned opal mine, only to find when he gets there that it's full of poor peasants chipping away at the workings in the hope of finding leftover opals. [[spoiler:The peasants end up doing his job for him because they're all former victims of the torturer.]]

* In the Brendan Fraser film ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', shortly after taking refuge in a cave on the side of an Icelandic volcano, they discover a lava tube that leads to an abandoned mine shaft. Cheesy MinecartMadness ensues.
* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' An abandoned mine near Summerville, Oklahoma turns out to have been once owned by Ivo Shandor. It further turned out to be the place where he and his cult of Gozer worshipers had mined the pure selenium used in the construction of Spook Central. Shandor was entombed in the mine after his death.

* The Rhondda Mine from ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Shadow Hearts Covenant]]'' was abandoned after a huge explosion in the deepest parts of the mine caused the deaths of more than one hundred miners. Now, the only ones there are ghosts and other nasties that have made the place their turf.

* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'': One such mine is the MacguffinLocation of the episode "There Is Something in the Mountains". It is specifically a gold mine known as "The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine" located in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona.

* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': The Arkansas Chugabug's driver entered a subway and mistook the tunnel for an abandoned mine.

It may or may not be specified what was mined there in the first place, and [[MinecartMadness mine cart rides]] may or may not be available.

->''“In the lofty treetops of Donkey Kong Country, you'll find a deserted town of wooden plataforms and huts, origin unknown.”''

->''“The vast mines of Donkey Kong Country have been stripped of any ore they may have once contained. All the tools of the miners remain, however, from mine carts to rickety scaffolding.”''