History Main / AbandonedMine

A SubTrope of AbandonedArea.

* The mines of planet Nemo in ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfMassmouth'', closed because "the workers disagreed with [[BatOutOfHell the inhabitats]]."

%%* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'': Bright Falls Coal Mine.

** You cross three different mines at your adventures: Barheim Passage, Lhusu Mines and Henne Mines. The first is abandoned and it becomes inaccessible after the escape from Nalbina. The two others are only temporarily abandoned due to monsters overunning them at the time you trek there, though they too have sections that permanently left such as Phase 2 of Henne Mines.

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

* All over the place in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. If the mine wasn't abandoned because someone DugTooDeep (either intentionally or accidentally), or because someone thought a mine would be a brilliant place to build a secret monster creating laborartory, it was abandoned because it happened to be in the vicinity of a zombie outbreak.
** The Antarctic Base in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' was a regular mine repurposed into a lab for Umbrella. By the time Claire reaches it everyone is already dead and zombified.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''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.

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** The backstory of Sushestvovanie Island in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' is that the community on the island was based on the island's alrge coal mine, and when it shut down the island fell into poverty, making it easy prey for Alex Wesker, who turned the island into her own personal torture lab.

* Many, many side-missions in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' will take place in these- from recovering missing Alliance intelligence to killing husks of a mining team that DugTooDeep. ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has just one mission in a abandoned mine that is also fighting the remnants of miners who DugTooDeep.

* All over the place in ''Franchise/ResidentEvill''. If the mine wasn't abandoned because someone DugTooDeep (either intentionally or accidentally), or because someone thought a mine would be a brilliant place to build a secret monster creating laborartory, it was abandoned because it happened to be in the vicinity of a zombie outbreak.

* Slipstone Quarry from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' is an abandoned gold mine that was once inhabited by goblin slaves. The goblin champion, Ruckus, hails from here, where he repurposed his mining MiniMecha into a war machine to rebel against his masters.
** The map, Foreman's Rise, is in the same area, with Slipstone Quarry being visible below it.

* ''ScurgeHive'': Area 5, the Mines. No longer actively used, these minds are now overrun with native monsters.
* ''{{Nostalgia}}'': The Eterna Mines.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] that kind of [[LandMineGoesClick mine]].

* Jebediah's gold mine in ''Fanfic/OliviaGoesWest'', a crossover between ''Film/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''. It serves as one of the main bases of operations for the bad guys, and is also one of the few elements borrowed from ''Fievel's American Tails'' series (see below in the Western Animation section). [[spoiler:The last showdown also happens there, in [[RollercoasterMine a minecart moving down the mineshaft]], no less.]]