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.