Whichever way we go - whether renewables or fossil fuel - mining is still going to an inevitable activity.
For example, 50% of this country's electricity is still being provided by coal-fired generation plant, and an open-cut coal mine is hardly the most picturesque place on the planet! However, there is no need to demonise mining per-se. Mine operators can clean up after themselves, and in fact do so when compelled to.
- See the following link for some examples of this.
Australian mine rehabilitation: Projects leading the way (mining-technology.com)
For as long as we continue to use metals, and/or use concrete, gravel and bricks for building works, there will be mining activities (after all, what is a gravel pit or a rock quarry but a mine with a different name?). It is definitely not a case of Fossil Fuels = No Mining / Renewables = Mining.
However, there is no need to "throw the baby out with the bath water", as the saying goes!
Miners can be made to rehabilitate their workings once mining operations have ceased. (Having worked in recent years at GEMCO's manganese mine in the Gulf of Carpentaria, I have seen first-hand some excellent results of this).