Abandoned Mine: Difference between revisions

A [[Sub -Trope]] of [[Abandoned Area]].

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'': In "Heavy Metal Queen", Spike, Faye, and a space trucker chase down a bounty into an abandoned mining complex on an asteroid.

* An inactive mine is a plot point in ''[[DantesDante's Peak]]''. 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.

* In the Brendan Fraser film ''[[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Earth]]'', 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.

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Moria is both this and a [[Ghost City]].

* The Mac Mordain Cadal in ''[[The Riftwar Cycle]]'' as well as the game based on it, ''[[Betrayal Atat Krondor]]''. The dwarves are trying to get it un-abandoned, though.

* ''[[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Inheritance Cycle]]'''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.

* ''[[Minecraft]]'' has the underground Stronghold and the [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Abandoned Mine]], which frequently go off in labyrinthine directions with broken mine tracks, exposed ores, and resources, chests, webs, and a spider spawner.

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

** In ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]: Episode 2'', both the rebel outpost and the antlion nest are in an abandoned mine.

* ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]'' has Knuckles' search for shards of the previously shattered Master Emerald bringing him to [[Down the Drain|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, [http://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."

* There is at least one in ''[[Neverwinter Nights (Video Game)|Neverwinter Nights]]''.

* Many, many side-missions in ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mass Effect 1]]'' will take place in these- from recovering missing Alliance intelligence to killing husks of a mining team that [[Dug Too Deep]]. ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' has just one mission in a abandoned mine that is also fighting the remnants of miners who [[Dug Too Deep]].

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' had the Toize Valley Mine in Tethe'alla.

* The ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|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.

* ''[[Scurge: Hive]]'': Area 5, the Mines. No longer actively used, these minds are now overrun with native monsters.

* ''[[Penumbra (Videovideo Gamegame series)|Penumbra]]'', a series of horror games, all take place in an abandoned mining facility.

* ''[[Fallout 3 (Video Game)|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.

** ''[[Fallout New Vegas (Video Game)|Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has its fair share of long-abandoned mines, now inhabited by monsters or raiders.

** ''[[Fallout 2 (Video Game)|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.

* The Perseus Mandate expansion pack from the original ''[[FEARF.E.A.R.]]'' features one of these in interval 6.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' 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.

* The original ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby-Doo]]! 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.

* 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. [[What an Idiot!|Not that this stops anyone from exploring them just to show how brave they are, of course.]].

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