mining should just be banned

Mining the way you described it should be banned. No one has said that it should be done this way.

One thing we urgently need is transparent supply chains to exactly prevent 'neoliberal mining policies' (and exploitative practices in other industries). It is exactly China which is among the countries massively lobbying against such transparency, and there is strong evidence for forced labour practices in the country.

Pointing the finger to the West and its exploitative history without mentioning how Chinese and other authoritarian governments are using exactly these neoliberal practices today amounts to nothing else than whataboutery imo.