History Main / AbandonedMine

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' the local clan of [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfeet]] live in an abandoned coal mine. It was abandoned because it was full of Biggest.

* VideoGame/HollowKnight has the Crystal Peak, which doubles as CrystalLandscape. [[DownplayedTrope While people are still mining in it]], the miners are actually zombies, and the presence of many animal creatures still makes this trope relevant.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode "Water Babies" begins with the babies pretending they are exploring such a mine, searching for a treasure.

* Some mines are only temporarily "abandoned" and subsequently get repurposed for other uses.

*** Does have a few, but like ''Morrowind'', it makes it more reasonable by also having working and populated mines.

* ''VideoGame/{{Nostalgia}}'': The Eterna Mines.

* The 2012 horror film ''Film/AbandonedMine'' takes place, unsurprisingly, inside one of these.

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

* Shows up in ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'' as the site for a party.

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

* ''VideoGame/AcornStory'': The protagonist travels through one of these at a later level.

* The entirety of ''VideoGame/TheDeadMines'' takes place in one of these.

* There is some sort of incarnation of the Abandoned Mine in every ''Half-Life'' game to date.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterEye'' have an abandoned mine shaft near the waterfall stage, full of giant insects and a pair of JapaneseBeetleBrothers as a DualBoss. The player have to take cover inside after being attacked by a giant rhino beetle, only to run afoul of a giant rhino beetle inside the shaft which the players must escape from. Once they're outside, they fight the rhino and stag beetle at the same time.

*** Which just goes to show: [[IncrediblyLamePun a mine is a terrible thing to waste.]]

*** Which just goes to show: [[IncrediblyLamePun a mine is a terrible thing to waste]]

*** Which goes to show that a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

* The 2013 horror film ''Film/AbandonedMine'' takes place, unsurprisingly, inside one of these.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine:''

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' and ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' have Gaptooth Ridge in New Austin, in both games they're overrun with outlaw gangs there.

** The spiders in mineshafts are quite unique as they're smaller than normal spiders but are more agile and on normal, hard and [[{{FinalDeath}} hardcore]] mode, they inflict poison.

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

* ''Literature/DeadSilver'' has the main characters attempting to search these. RealityEnsues when the company that owns the land refuses to let them, citing liability issues.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] [[ComicBook/WonderWomanNumberOne "The Greatest Feat of Daring"]]: Diana Prince, Etta Candy and Mint Candy rescue a beautiful young Mexican woman named Pepita who'd been tossed down an abandoned mine shaft near the Bar-L Ranch which the Candys own.

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* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': The third (and last) Creator/CarlBarks story featuring Flintheart Glomgold was about an abandoned gold mine being put for auction in Africa. Both Scrooge and Flintheart believed the mine to still have gold and Glomgold tried to prevent Scrooge from attending the auction. [[spoiler:The story had NoEnding as we never get to know who won the auction or if the mine had enough gold to be worth the trouble]].

* 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.
* In ''Film/TheGreatOutdoors'', Cara and Mara, and briefly their father, end up trapped for a period in an abandoned mine with some old, wet dynamite. [[spoiler:And an old, wet bear. The bear is substantially more volatile.]]

* The eponymous creatures in ''Film/TheBoogens'' reside in an abandoned gold mine, who are set loose when the place is reopened.
* The 2013 horror film ''Film/AbandonedMine'' takes place, unsurprisingly, inside one of these.
* Shows up in ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'' as the site for a party.
* In ''Film/{{Bats}}'', the killer bats are roosting in the old Black Rock Mine. This is where the final confrontation between human and bat takes place.

* The climax of ''Film/TheBurning'' takes place in the ruins of an abandoned copper mine.
* The CannibalClan in ''Film/EvilBreedTheLegendOfSamhain'' dwell in an abandoned copper mine.

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Moria is both this and a GhostCity.
* In ''Literature/TheLostRedeemer'', Starglade is in abandoned mining town.
* An abandoned mine is the setting of a ghost scare prank in one of ''Literature/TheGreatBrain'' books.

* The Mac Mordain Cadal in ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'' as well as the game based on it, ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor''. The dwarves are trying to get it un-abandoned, though.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'''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.

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

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has the underground Strongholds and the 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]].
** The spiders in mineshafts are quite unique as they're smaller than normal spiders but are more agile and on normal, hard and [[{{FinalDeath}} hardcore]] mode, they inflict poison.
** Silverfish on the other hand, continuously spawn reinforcements when you attack them directly. They also [[ChestMonster hide themselves inside blocks]] and can eat through blocks.
** The player also creates mines which may subsequently be abandoned.
* There is some sort of incarnation of the Abandoned Mine in every ''Half-Life'' game to date.
** Some of the older and more dilapidated parts of [[ElaborateUndergroundBase the Black Mesa complex]] have this aesthetic even if they're not literal examples, being built on top of a decommissioned missile silo that dates back to TheFifties. Some areas you pass through look like they're either natural caves or literal mineshafts that have been repurposed.
** In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode 2'', both the rebel outpost and the antlion nest are in an abandoned mine.
** The short route from Ravenholm back to the surface in VideoGame/HalfLife2 also counts.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' has Knuckles' search for shards of the previously shattered Master Emerald bringing him to [[DownTheDrain Aquatic Mine]], an abandoned coal mine located within the vicinity of Pumpkin Hill that can be accessed via the sewers of Central City. This is aptly summed up by the opening lyrics of the stage's theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LIsQuFX9Xk "Dive into the Mellow":]] "Let's take a dive, in Aquatic Mine. Once was a coal pit, but now it's a water ride."
** Atypical for this trope, the mine is presumably abandoned because it is flooded, as the name and layout implies
* There is at least one in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights''.
* 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. ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' keeps it going, with Drack's LoyaltyMission being set in one used by criminals as a hideout.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' had the Toize Valley Mine in Tethe'alla.
* The ''VideoGame/{{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.
* ''VideoGame/ScurgeHive'': Area 5, the Mines. No longer actively used, these minds are now overrun with native monsters.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nostalgia}}'': The Eterna Mines.
* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'', a series of horror games, all take place in an abandoned mining facility.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''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/FalloutNewVegas'' has its fair share of long-abandoned mines, now inhabited by monsters or raiders.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' 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.
* The third level in ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'' was an abandoned (and haunted) mine, which had a passage to Cragscleft prison, your ultimate objective.
* ''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 the location it's supposed to be) and it's supposed to be located in Hell, but it does have areas that look like giant underground excavated caverns.

* ''VideoGame/{{Elsword}}'' has Richie Mine, a dungeon where the Nasods have started setting up base and excavating materials to build more of their kind.
* The Perseus Mandate expansion pack from the original ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'' features one of these in interval 6.
* ''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.

** 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 until you get the key from a sidequest to its main entrance. The two others are only temporarily abandoned due to monsters overunning them at the time you trek there, though they too have sections that were left permanently such as Phase 2 of Henne Mines.

* ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' features the The Mac Mordain Cadal, although the dwarves are trying to change that mine's status.
* ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', naturally, has several, but the first one most players see (north-northwest of Prontera) contains a few dwarves who DugTooDeep.
* One of the levels of ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfMassmouth'' is set in an abandoned mine on the planet Nero. It is populated with dangerous [[BatOutOfHell Stuka-Bats]] (which are the very reason the mines were abandoned, as "the workers disagreed with the inhabitants.")
* The 3rd level in ''VideoGame/SlenderTheArrival'' has Lauren escape an abandoned mine where she needs to activate 6 generators to turn on an elevator, trouble is [[spoiler:Slender Man isn't the only one who's stalking her.]]
* Miror B's hideout in ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' is in one. And it's a maze and confusing to navigate. ''VideoGame/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.]]
* An optional area hidden in Mt. Metox in ''VideoGame/StarOcean1'' is an abandoned mine filled with super-tough enemies and high value loot.
* One of the possible [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels randomly generated]] structures in ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''. They're filled with monsters that are not native to the planet.

* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': It's mentioned that the lower levels of Nashkel's iron mine are all but abandoned, due to creatures killing the miners. The main reason you're there is to determine what's going on in said lower levels.
* The Rhondda Mine from ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Shadow Heats Covenant]]'' 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.
* The Dauna Mine in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' is visited twice during the game, once at the beginning when it was in full use, and a second time after the ten year TimeSkip, when it is abandoned due to a rampaging dragon. [[spoiler:It's a twist though, said dragon is the PlayerCharacter.]]
* The Ether Mine of colony 6 in ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}''.
* ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' has the Dragon Mines track, which serves as Komodo Joe's home track. There exist {{minecart|Madness}}s that serve as obstacles.
* ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' has the Broken Hill Mine map, a borhium mine that was the recent target of a monster attack. Now all that can be found of the miners are corpses and bloodstains, while the monster itself still lurks in the tunnels.

* One of the episodes in ''VideoGame/{{Prismata}}'' takes place in an abadoned Gaussite mine.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'': The Völunder Mines. The miners left a long time ago, and the tunnels are now inhabited by draugr. There is also a mean-looking Soul Eater that Kratos can kill to fulfill a favor for Brok.
* On Wild West Island in ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'', you go into an abandoned mine. There's a minecart segment where you have to shoot bats and targets. At the end, you'll find a blue tulip, then the mine caves in. Thankfully, there's a rope that you can climb to get out.
* ''VideoGame/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnline'' has El Patron's Mine on Raven's Cove - complete with [[GhostPirate Ghost Pirates]].

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'' has the not-so-abandoned dungeon beneath the [[PalmtreePanic Twinsy Tropics]], where a mining operation leaded by Wendy and Roy using enslaved Toads is taking place.
* ''VideoGame/AcornStory'': The protagonist travels through one of these at a later level.
* ''VideoGame/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.
* ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'': The abandoned mines out behind Possum Springs are a big part of the town's history. They're also the place where [[spoiler: the cult of the Black Goat makes their sacrifices.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Mamon Mine. Poisonous puddles, grisly gasses, malevolent monsters... you name it! The mining town goes from decline to virtual ghost town status because of a poison gas seeping from the nearby mines, caused by the fact that the demon king Estark was sealed underground beneath the town centuries ago - and the miners had been unwittingly unsealing his prison.
** 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 entirety of ''VideoGame/TheDeadMines'' takes place in one of these.
* In ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'', the Mars Colony was built over an abandoned mining settlement, whose tunnels serve as TheMaze for the player.