List of rooms in Metroid Prime/Phazon Mines

This is a list of rooms in the Phazon Mines in Metroid Prime. Larger rooms have their own pages and are linked here.

The following rooms are found on Level One of the Phazon Mines.

Transport to Tallon Overworld South

Transport to Tallon Overworld South is the first room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It contains an elevator connecting to the south part of the Tallon Overworld above. This is the first (and primary) elevator that Samus uses to enter the Phazon Mines.

Quarry Access

The Quarry Access is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It is a small entrance hallway that consists of a grating pathway suspended over Phazon. There are two explosive crates that Samus can shoot down behind one of these grated walls, allowing for rechargable pick-ups to be acquired via Charge Beam.

Main Quarry

The Main Quarry is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. As its name states, it is one of the main rooms in the Phazon Mines. The atmosphere seems to be largely polluted around the Mines, as seen by the hazy, pink sky and a factory pumping fumes into the air.

Save Station Mines A

Save Station Mines A is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This is the first Save Station room in the Phazon Mines, where Samus can save her progress. It located just to the left of the Main Quarry, up a Spider Ball Track. Samus must first disengage the rails preventing access to the Station by scanning an Interface Module. Using this Save Station is recommended for the long path to the Central Dynamo.

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Connecting rooms • Main Quarry (Purple Door)

Security Access A

Save Station Mines A is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Security Access A is a connecting room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The entry is initially blocked from the Main Quarry by a Dual-Control Force Field, however this can be deactivated via two Interface Modules. There is a Bendezium wall to the left that can be destroyed with a Power Bomb to obtain a Missile Expansion.

Mine Security Station

The Mine Security Station is a room located near the entrance of the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The Mine Security Station is a small room with a long, winding path to get to the opposite side, and along the way are multiple metal barriers that block the path and must be shot or moved around. This is where Samus first encounters Wave Troopers. There is a Bendezium structure in the highest part of the room that Samus can destroy with a Power Bomb to clear a Force Field, and open a door to get the Flamethrower.

Security Access B

Security Access B is a small room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It is a short connecting hall with Phazon beneath the floor and destructible bars blocking the path. Destroying the bars will provoke Shadow Pirates, who are concealed in the ceiling, into attacking Samus.

Storage Depot A

Storage Depot A is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It is where Samus obtains the Flamethrower. To access this room, Samus has to deactivate a Force Field in the Mine Security Station. In order to accomplish this, she must activate the Interface Module controlling the Force Field by placing a Power Bomb on the Bendezium wall covering the switch, then scan it. The Force Field will deactivate and Samus can proceed to Storage Depot A via a Red Door.

Items and logbook entries • Flamethrower

Connecting rooms • Mine Security Station (Red Door)

Elite Research

Elite Research is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Elite Research holds the Artifact of Warrior, which is guarded by the Phazon Elite in the Bendezium tank at the bottom. There is also a Pirate Data entry in one of the computer screens. There are several platforms that can be moved into position by scanning two different terminals. At the very top of the room, there is an Industrial Grade Pulse Beam that Samus manipulates in order for her to find a Missile Expansion and continue onto the next room.

Research Access

Research Access is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It is a tall shaft with a Spider Ball Track on the wall used to go up/down. Two electrical rotating fields are in the shaft, and will electrocute Samus Aran should she touch one.

Ore Processing

Ore Processing is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This room has three floors. There is a big pillar in the center of the room with three different colored Spider Ball Tracks. The pillar is made up of three separately rotated segments. Each track leads to a floor, and Samus must solve a puzzle which consists of laying bombs so the pillar spins and the tracks connect. The last control unit is blocked by Bendezium, so Samus must use Power Bombs to access it. At the top are two Grapple Points for reaching Waste Disposal.

Elevator Access A

Elevator Access A is a room in the Phazon Mines in Metroid Prime. It is a long shaft featuring a Spider Ball Track used to go up or down.

Elevator A

Elevator A is an elevator room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This is a long elevator shaft featuring three explosive crates at the bottom. By looking through the window, Samus can see where she is in relation to the Impact Crater, which is visible through the window. It is possible to jump on a panel on the top floor wall and stand there while the elevator descends.

Storage Depot B

Storage Depot B is a small room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This is the room where Samus finally regains the Grapple Beam after losing it on the Frigate Orpheon much earlier in the game. To get into the room, Samus must possess the Power Bombs, since she must destroy a wall of Bendezium blocking the final Rotation Control Unit that gets her to the final and highest floor in Ore Processing, with the door to this room. More Bendezium covers the door, and after destroying it, Samus can collect the Grapple Beam.

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Connecting rooms • Ore Processing (White Door)

Waste Disposal

The Waste Disposal is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The room is navigated through an underwater Morph Ball maze in a Waste Disposal Unit within the walls. It connects the Ore Processing with the Main Quarry, providing a useful shortcut once Samus has the Power Bombs and Grapple Beam.

The following rooms are found on Level Two of the Phazon Mines.

Elite Control Access

Elite Control Access is a short tunnel in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. There is an explosive metal crate on top of a ledge near a vent. When shot, a violent explosion occurs.

Elite Control

Elite Control is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This is where Samus first encounters an Elite Pirate and Ice Troopers (unless Samus re-entered Mine Security Station before entering this room). When the Elite Pirate dies, it will release shockwaves that will destroy the Force Field covering the path upward, and alert the Pirates in the room to Samus's presence.

Maintenance Tunnel

The Maintenance Tunnel is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It is a completely optional room that is set entirely in a Morph Ball tunnel. There is a Bendezium obstacle in the middle of it, so the Power Bombs are required to cross. If Samus sits in front of the obstruction long enough, a message appears onscreen: "A rock slide has blocked off this passage. Analysis indicates traces of Bendezium." It provides a shortcut from the Elite Control to the Phazon Processing Center.

Ventilation Shaft

The Ventilation Shaft is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The Ventilation Shaft is defined by the half-pipe in it, which bears an ornate design of stonework, metal and glass through which the mine caverns outside can be seen. Dropping into the half-pipe, Samus can use her Boost Ball to boost up onto upper ledges that lead to Elite Control and Omega Research on either side. Two large ventilation fans are built into the walls on either side of the half-pipe, along with two smaller vents in the ceiling. One fan with larger blades is operating at minimal power, while the other is offline.

The first time this room is accessed, Puffers will emerge from the ceiling vents. The creatures fill the air with their meta-viprium gas, which the powered fan spreads throughout the room. Samus has no choice but to quickly escape the room before her energy is depleted. Once she returns with the Power Bomb, Samus is able to destroy a Bendezium grate in the floor underneath the inactive fan and access the Control Room. Here, an Interface Module is present; when scanned, the inactive ventilation fan is activated. This pushes the Puffers into the working fan, killing them all, dispersing the gas and destroying the fan. Once it is destroyed, an Energy Tank can be accessed.

In the original Japanese and New Play Control! versions of Metroid Prime, Samus's Suit Voice will say "Poison gas detected" when the gas begins to fill the room. Through Options in Metroid Prime Remastered, this voiceover can be toggled on or off.

Control Room

The Control Roomis a sub-room of the Ventilation Shaft on the second level of the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime, where it goes without a name, but it is named in Metroid Prime: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide. The Control Room is located behind the ventilation fan on the left side of the Ventilation Shaft, accessible through a tunnel.

Omega Research

Omega Research is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This room has two levels. Samus enters from the higher level and can jump down to the lower one, but must deactivate a barrier using the Scan Visor to return the higher one. On the lower floor is a Pirate Data entry. The second time Samus goes through here, she fights an Elite Pirate. There is a Bendezium structure on the higher level that gives access to a Map Station.

Map Station Mines

Map Station Mines is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This Map Station is where the map of the mines is downloaded. Power Bombs are required to destroy Bendezium blocking the door to this room. Panels on the walls reveal Pirate activity in the mines.

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Connecting rooms • Omega Research (White Door)

Dynamo Access

Omega Research is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Dynamo Access is a room in the Phazon Mines in Metroid Prime. It is a long tunnel with an Elite Pirate kept in stasis, that can break out on later visits.

Central Dynamo

The Central Dynamo is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The Central Dynamo is the location of the Cloaked Drone and Power Bomb upgrade in the Phazon Mines. Four Ice Troopers patrol the area after the drone is defeated.

Just after Samus defeats the Cloaked Drone and before she gets the Power Bomb upgrade, she has to enter a small hatch which leads underneath the floor. There, she has to move through a maze of electric streams, where she eventually gets the Power Bomb upgrade.

Save Station Mines B

Save Station Mines B is a small room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This room contains a Save Station to the left of the entrance. Fish can be seen in several tanks behind the Save Station. It serves as the first Save Station in the mines after a long, difficult trek to the Central Dynamo, as well as the only one she finds until she reaches the source of mysterious energy fluxes, which is in the Dynamo.

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Connecting rooms • Central Dynamo (White Door)

Quarantine Access A

Quarantine Access A is a small hallway in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The room is guarded by four Mega Turrets in the center, which are disabled by a terminal near each of the doorways, giving the room an appearance of a security checkpoint. However, the terminal near the Central Dynamo entrance appears damaged (possibly by accidental turret fire). There is a small tunnel underneath the hallway which is accessible with Samus's Morph Ball. This allows Samus to roll past the turrets and reach the other side.

Metroid Quarantine A

Metroid Quarantine A is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This room contains multiple Space Pirate terminals. Its main purpose is to quarantine Tallon Metroids. A large Force Field blocks off two-thirds of the room. The scannable switch in near the door to Quarantine Access A. The opposite side of the room contains four Tallon Metroids and large amounts of Phazon.

Elevator Access B

Elevator Access B is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It serves as access to Elevator B. Phazon is present in this room underneath a ledge with a door.

Elevator B

Elevator B is a room in the Phazon Mines on Tallon IV. It is a long elevator shaft featuring a window where Samus can see where she is in relation to the Impact Crater. As the elevator goes into the crust of the planet, veins of Phazon are visible. It is possible to jump on a panel and stand there while the elevator descends.

The following rooms are found on Level Three of the Phazon Mines.

Fungal Hall Access

Fungal Hall Access is a room in the Phazon Mines in Metroid Prime. The floor is littered with Phazon, making it hazardous to walk on unless the Phazon Suit is active. Many Saturnines grow off the walls and can be used as platforms to navigate the room safely without the Phazon Suit.

Fungal Hall A

Fungal Hall A is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. As the name implies, there are a lot of Saturnines in the room that Samus can use as platforms. There are also several Hunter Metroids and later Fission Metroids (PAL and Wii versions only) in this room, and a Glider near the door to the Phazon Mining Tunnel. In order to safely traverse the room before Samus acquires the Phazon Suit, she must carefully jump from Saturnine to Saturnine in order to avoid the deadly Phazon on the floor of the room.

Phazon Mining Tunnel

The Phazon Mining Tunnel is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The room is cylindrical and, as the name implies, is full of Phazon. Upon first entry, the tunnel is blocked by Bendezium. Samus must first traverse it in order to get to the Omega Pirate. Many rocks are in the way, which Samus must destroy with Morph Ball Bombs or Power Bombs.

Fungal Hall B

Fungal Hall B is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Fungal Hall B is composed of very large Saturnines and a floor full of Phazon. There are several Tallon Metroids in this room, as well as a Glider, which Samus must grapple on to in order to progress. Because this place is very dark, the Thermal Visor can improve vision. This room connects to a Missile Station.

Missile Station Mines

Missile Station Mines is, as the name implies, a Missile Station in the Phazon Mines area of Metroid Prime. It is one of three in the game. Unlike the rest of the Missile Stations, this one is relatively large, with many growths on the floor and walls, and the Missile Station itself in the center.

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Connecting rooms • Fungal Hall B (Red Door)

Quarantine Access B

Quarantine Access B is a small hallway in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Like most rooms in Level 3 of the Mines, Samus must traverse over a Phazon-covered floor by jumping on Saturnines. However, in this room, Samus encounters 3 unscannable, invisible Pulse Bombus; invisible, that is, to all but the X-Ray Visor. With the X-Ray Visor on, Samus can easily target and destroy them with her Wave Beam.

Metroid Quarantine B

Metroid Quarantine B is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. There is Phazon in the middle of the room, so Samus must use the Spider Ball to reach an upper platform so that she may use a Grapple Point to grapple across to what appears to be a lab. Samus must then scan a nearby terminal to lower a large force field blocking access to the rest of the room. This room connects to a Save Station.

Upon a second visit (or if Samus restarts the game from the Save Station), Metroids will appear here, inside stasis tanks. Should Samus get closer to the lab area, a small blackout will occur, the loss of power will allow the Metroids in captivity to escape and attack Samus. Any other visits will simply have Metroids wandering this room, primarily situated near or directly above the large Phazon pit.

Save Station Mines C

Save Station Mines C is a Save Station in the Phazon Mines in Metroid Prime. It serves as the Save Station for the upcoming battle with the Omega Pirate. Other than that, the room is of little importance.

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Connecting rooms • Metroid Quarantine B (Red Door)

Elite Quarters Access

Elite Quarters Access is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Elite Quarters Access is essentially a large cave. The room has several large gears situated behind screens of glass to the left of the room. The floor is made up of mesh and grates in place over a shaft where the Space Pirates have been mining. A thick fog fills the air of this room, impairing vision. However, it disappears after Samus defeats the Omega Pirate.

Elite Quarters

Elite Quarters is a room in the third level of the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. The Omega Pirate rests in the center of the chamber in a stasis tank below a huge glob of pure Phazon. There are doors that are opened regularly to examine the creature's vital signs and if necessary, call in Trooper Pirates for intruder annihilation.

Processing Center Access

Processing Center Access is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. Access through the room is blocked by a heavy-duty Security Gate. Behind the gate is a small cave, the floor of which is completely covered with Phazon. The gate's purpose is likely a safety mechanism to prevent unshielded workers from coming into contact with the substance.

Phazon Processing Center

The Phazon Processing Center is a large room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. This room, as its name implies, contains a lot of Phazon in the lower level. The center is full of Trooper Pirates and, in the PAL and Wii versions, after the Omega Pirate has been defeated, Fission Metroids appear. The main purpose of this room is to provide a shortcut to the Magmoor Caverns.

Transport Access

Transport Access is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It is a long tunnel smothered in raw Phazon in the Phazon Mines on Tallon IV. Before the Phazon Suit is collected, Samus can cross the tunnel using her Grapple Beam. If the room is entered before Grapple Beam is collected, there will be floating platforms to allow Samus to cross.

Transport to Magmoor Caverns South

Transport to Magmoor Caverns South is a room in the Phazon Mines. It appears in Metroid Prime. It connects to the Phazon Processing Center, and, as the name implies, gives access to the southern part of the Magmoor Caverns. Through glass walls the outside of the elevator is visible.