Abandoned Mines

Large-scale operations in these mines ceased in the 1960s, leaving behind crumbling processing facilities and deserted living quarters.

This site contains preserved ruins and industrial remnants of Western Australia's mining heritage.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

A haunted slate mine turned concert hall and a hidden fairy garden.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

An abandoned mining complex in Serra do Gerês.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.