History Main / AbandonedMine

Watch out for [[RocksFallPartySplits falling rocks]].

* The ''{{Portal}}'' games take place at Aperture Science, a laboratory built into an abandoned salt mine. Of course, since said mines are now booming research facilities (though those were abandoned too), it's hard to say if this trope applies.

* ''TalesOfSymphonia'' had the Toize Valley Mine in Tethe'alla.

* Abandoned mines are all over the place in real life, often in remote or unexpected areas, but rarely completely abandoned because that's sorta frowned on by environmental agencies these days. Despite this, people in charge of remediating the damage done by the mining process will usually not be there on any particular given day. Needless to say, they are dangerous places.

* ''TheInheritanceCycle'''s Farthen Dur. Orik tells Eragonabout many tunnels underneath the city, "uninhabited since the day they were mined", which is where a part of the Battle of Farthen Dur takes place.

* ''DonkeyKongCountry'' has the mine levels. Most of the levels involve using a mine cart to get from the beginning to the end.

It may or may not be specified what was mined there in the first place.

Watch out for [[RocksFallEveryoneDies falling]] [[RocksFallPartySplits rocks]].

* ''CowboyBebop'': In "Heavy Metal Queen", Spike, Faye, and a space trucker chase down a bounty into an abandoned mining complex on an asteroid.

* ''Fallout3'''s DLC Pack Point Lookout has the Herzog Mine. The mine was partially collapsed to end a strike. Many of the striking workers died. The owner, overcome with remorse, hung himself in the lowest chamber.
* The third level in ''ThiefTheDarkProject'' was an abandoned (and haunted) mine, which had a passage to Cragscleft prison, your ultimate objective.

* Abandoned mines are all over the place in real life, often in remote or unexpected areas, but rarely completely abandoned because that's sorta frowned on by environmental agencies these days. Despite this, people in charge of remediating the damage done by the mining process will usually not be there on any particular given day.

* In ''TheLordOfTheRings'', Moria is both this and a GhostCity.

* There is some sort of incarnation of the AbandonedMine in every Halflife game to date.
** In ''HalfLife 2: Episode 2'', both the rebel outpost and the antlion nest are in an abandoned mine.

* "AlanWake'': Bright Falls Coal Mine.

* In ''AlanWake'', the title character has to make his way through one in Bright Falls.

* In ''HalfLife 2: Episode 2'', both the rebel outpost and the antlion nest are in an abandoned mine.

* ''DonkeyKongCountry'' have the mine levels. Most of the levels involve using a mine cart to get from the beginning to the end.

* The ''Encounter Critical'' adventure ''Asteroid 1618'' has an abandoned mine as an playable area. Encounters include Hellbats, Fatal Funguses (sic), a Cave Ooze and a Slime Dragon.

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* In ''TransformersAnimated'', the Decepticons set up a hidden base in one. It also features prominently in the episode "Nature Calls".
* The ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You!'' episode "Mine Your Own Business". While trying to determine the identity of the scary Miner 49er, the gang explores a spooky old mine.

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* ''MetroidPrime'': the Phazon Mines.
** Those aren't abandoned, you have to shoot your way through an army of Space Pirates just to get near it.

* The ''{{Portal}}'' games take place at Aperture Science, a laboratory built into an abandoned mine. Of course, since said mines are now booming research facilities, it's hard to say if this trope applies.

* ''MetroidPrime'': the Phazon Mines.

Maybe there's nothing left to mine. Maybe it was closed because of safety issues. Maybe the company that owned it went bankrupt. Maybe something terrible happened there. Whatever the reason, this mine is now abandoned, and has probably been that way for some time. That does not, however, mean that it is empty. An abandoned mine is the perfect place for young characters to get lost or trapped, for heroes to find a valuable clue or some sort of treasure, or for villains, outlaws, and horror movie monsters to lurk.