History Main / AbandonedMine

* Miror B's hideout in ''PokemonColosseum'' is in one. And it's a maze and confusing to navigate. ''PokemonXAndY'' also has one, with the added creepy factor of the mine being extremely profitable but abandoned because the miners [[DugTooDeep discovered]] [[EldritchAbomination something horrific living deep underground.]]

* The third level in ''ThiefTheDarkProject'' was an abandoned (and haunted) mine, which had a passage to Cragscleft prison, your ultimate objective.

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* ''{{Elsword}}'' has Richie Mine, a dungeon where the Nasods have started setting up base and excavating materials to build more of their kind.

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'': There are a number of them throughout Vvardenfell. Many kwama egg mines had to be abandoned when the resident kwama colony became blighted and turned hostile. There are also some ebony and glass mines that had to be abandoned for various reasons. One in particular, the Vassir-Didanat ebony mine, was not only abandoned but it's location was lost. You can find it and report its location to one of three Hlaalu councilors, each of whom will give you a different reward.

* In the Brendan Fraser 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.

* Miror B's hideout in ''PokemonColosseum'' is in one. And it's a maze and confusing to navigate.

* 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.

* ''{{Minecraft}}'' has the underground Strongholds and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Abandoned Mine Shafts]], which frequently go off in labyrinthine directions with broken mine tracks, exposed ores, and resources, chests, webs, and the nests of [[BigCreepyCrawlies huge venomous spiders]].

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': for the civilized heart of TheEmpire, Cyrodil sure has a lot of abandoned mines lying around for no good reason and, for the most part, they're infested with bandits or creatures. They sometimes show no evidence, beyond wooden supports or the odd pickaxe, of actually being a mine. Bonus points for one literally called the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Abandoned Mine]].

* ''{{Minecraft}}'' has the underground Stronghold and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Abandoned Mine Shaft]], which frequently go off in labyrinthine directions with broken mine tracks, exposed ores, and resources, chests, webs, and a spider spawner ([[DemonicSpider Silverfish]] in Strongholds).

* In ''TransformersAnimated'', the Decepticons set up a hidden base in one. It also features prominently in the episode "Nature Calls".

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': for the civilised heart of TheEmpire, Cyrodill sure has a lot of abandoned mines lying around for no good reason and, for the most part, they're infested with bandits or creatures. They sometimes show no evidence, beyond wooden supports or the odd pickaxe, of actually being a mine. Bonus points for one literally called the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Abandoned Mine]].

* The Perseus Mandate expansion pack from the original ''{{FEAR}}'' features one of these in interval 6.

* An inactive mine is a plot point in ''DantesPeak''. Wando's son uses it as a hideout/clubhouse, and when the volcano erupts, it's where Harry and the Wando family hole up until help arrives.

* ''Film/TheEvilThatMenDo''. 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.]]

* ''Film/TheEvilThatMenDo''. 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 them, because they're all former victims of the torturer.]]

** Beneath the Canadian city of Sudbury, ON is a disused nickel-mine which is now the site of SNOLAB (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory LABoratory)

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' averts this trope by having working and populated mines.