
Film
Fictional mines, commodities and disasters whose setting began in film, grouped by setting. Each record is researched and structured like its real counterpart and sourced to canon; see the Fictional section for what that means. The full lists across every medium are Mines, Commodities and Disasters.
Mines (8)
Alien
- Hadley's Hope
One of science fiction's most famous ruined colonies, destroyed alongside its own Atmosphere Processor in Aliens' climax; its now-common 'mining colony' description turns out, on checking, to come from licensed tie-in comics and sourcebooks rather than the original film.
Avatar
- The Unobtanium Mine (RDA ESM 01)
An open-pit mine whose reserve-replacement problem is the story: the next orebody is under somebody's house, and the company has costed both the carrot and the stick.
My Bloody Valentine
- Hanniger Mine
The colliery of Valentine Bluffs, where five men were buried by a methane explosion while the town danced, and the one survivor came back with a pickaxe.
Outland
- Con-Am 27
A titanium mine on Io whose productivity record is bought with an amphetamine that kills its miners in eleven months.
Snow White
- The Dwarfs' Mine
A mine that exists almost entirely so seven characters can have a marching song.
Star Wars
- Cloud City
A gas giant with no solid surface to speak of turned out to be exactly the kind of place worth building a floating city and a mining colony around. - Spice Mines of Kessel
A mine whose most famous product — the fuel of the Kessel Run — comes from a fissure so unstable it has to be kept permanently warm just to stop it from exploding.
Total Recall
- Pyramid Mine
The sealed turbinium mine on Mars with an alien air-making reactor inside, which Cohaagen would rather keep shut than lose his monopoly on air.
Commodities (1)
Star Wars
- Coaxium
The fuel of the Kessel Run is mined from a fissure so unstable it has to be kept permanently heated just to stop it exploding on its own.
Disasters (1)
My Bloody Valentine
- The Hanniger Mine Accident (My Bloody Valentine) (Valentine's Day, twenty years before the film)
Five buried while the town danced; one came out alive, and a year later came back for the supervisors.