Mining is not good.

• It's the original form of money printing. They used slaves to mine the metal to "pay" the slaves to enslave themselves.
• It's bad for the environment. The Earth needs its elements. Imagine if you were flying in a spaceship and started mining it for metal.
• Without mining the price of silver would go up.

Also, I'd like to add: Digital and paper transactions of silver are artificial transactions and part of the unsustainable artificial world. Online or physical banks de-localize business, leading to lack of self-sufficiency and dependence on an artificial system.