History Main / AbandonedMine

* Most of the second chapter of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders2'' takes place in an old mine, with the main goal being to revitalize it after the Children of Hargon closed it down years ago.

%%* The ''[[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel's American Tails]]'' episode "The Lost Mother Lode" features one as a setting.

* The CannibalClan in ''Film/EvilBreedTheLegendOfSamhain'' dwell in an abandoned copper mine

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana Prince]], Etta Candy and Mint Candy rescue a beautiful young Mexican woman named Pepita who'd been tossed down a mine shaft.

[[caption-width-right:350:Abandoned by miners, found by nosy minors.]]

* ''VideoGame/DoomII: Hell on Earth'' has a level called "The Abandoned Mines". Granted, it doesn't look much like actual mines (then again, no level in the classic ''Doom'' games looks like anything) and it's supposed to be located in Hell, but it does have areas that look like giant underground excavated caverns.

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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Diana Prince, Etta Candy and Mint Candy rescue a beautiful young Mexican woman named Pepita who'd been tossed down a mine shaft.

* Jebediah's gold mine in ''Fanfic/OliviaGoesWest'', a crossover between ''Disney/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.]]

** The backstory of Sushestvovanie Island in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' is that the community on the island was based on the island's large 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.

* In ''Film/TheGreatOutdoors'', John Candy's character ends up trapped for a period in an abandoned mine with some old, wet dynamite.

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* ''VideoGame/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.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' has the Wanamingo Mine in Redding, which was abandoned after a pack of monsters moved in. The player can buy the mine and clear it out to resell it at a profit.

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

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* The Ether Mine of colony 6 in ''{{VideoGame/Xenoblade}}''.

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* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': in the ''Mata Nui Online Game 2'', the Great Mine was abandoned due to flooding by Gahlok in the previous arc. Hahli, a Ga-Matoran and experienced swimmer, has to dive through the mine to retrieve tools and materials for the Onu-Matoran miners.

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* ''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.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheMandalorePlot "The Mandalore Plot"]], the Death Watch's base is located in a former mine on the moon Concordia, which has many such facilities. Obi-Wan suspects something like this is going on the instant he hears of the abandoned facilities, slipping away to investigate as soon as he and Duchess Satine arrive.

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* In an episode of ''Series/ManVsWild'', Bear Grylls explores one.

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

* The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode "Water Babies" begins with the babies pretending they are exploring such a mine, searching for a treasure.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel's American Tails]]'' episode "The Lost Mother Lode" features one as a setting.

* ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' once found one and decided to see if there was any gold left. An outlaw named Joe claimed the mine as his by writing his name on the Abandoned Mine sign. Woody got the gold but [[spoiler: it was fool's gold and the assays officer threatened to shoot the next one to bring it. At least Woody had a good laugh by luring Joe into being the next one.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': The Arkansas Chugabug's driver entered a subway and mistook the tunnel for an abandoned mine.

** In the episode, "Duncan and the Old Mine", Duncan wanders into an abandoned mine and gets sealed in by an avalanche. For a while, he ends up lost, until he finds a bunch of coal trucks, which he uses as a BatteringRam to get out the other end.
** In the special, "The Great Discovery", Thomas gets lost in Morgan's Mine chasing down a Troublesome Truck. The whole Island of Sodor sends a search party to look for him. Eventually, Thomas finds his way out and Stanley helps pull him back onto the rails.
** In the special, "King of the Railway", Stephen smashes into a boarded-up mine after getting chased by a runaway train of Troublesome Trucks. While there, he finds the lost crown of King Godred, which Sir Robert Norramby has been searching for for years. Like the aforementioned "The Great Discovery" example, the Island of Sodor sends a search party, this time to look for Stephen. Thomas eventually finds him, and with the help of Jack the Front Loader, pulls him out of the mine.
** In the episode, "Missing Gator", the Troublesome Trucks run away from Percy because they aren't coupled up to him. They smash through [[CallBack the same boarded-up mine that Stephen was previously in]], and in an OutOfCharacter moment, they ask Percy to help them out of the mine, as [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness they don't like being left there alone]].

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[[caption-width-right:350: Those aren't your footsteps.]]

* ''VideoGameRune/Runescape'': The quest "Haunted Mine" prominently takes place in a half-flooded, abandoned mine next to [[BubblegloopSwamp Mort Myre Swamp]]. The quest mostly consists of the player solving an elaborate multi-level minecart puzzle.

** The Springhill Coal Mines, shut down in 1958 following [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springhill_mining_disaster a (third) disaster]], was turned into geothermal heating for Springhill's industrial park.