Older Than Television: Edison's Conquest of Mars, a serial novel written in 1898 by Garrett P.
Downplayed in Zygote as the asteroids have fallen to Earth and buried themselves in the Arctic ice.
"Ore" has miners on an exoplanet battling a Xenomorph. "Harvest" is set on a spaceship trailing a comet to harvest plasma from its tail.
The 1954 film Riders to the Stars isn't a strict example but worthy of note - several one-man rockets are sent up in an attempt to get a meteor sample before it enters the Earth's atmosphere.
The plant is fully automated, so there aren't actual miners, however.
Spacely's Orbiting Ore Asteroid from Jetsons: The Movie.
The moon Nazis of Iron Sky have prepared for their return to earth by building spaceships and stocking Helium-3.
The crew of the Protector in Galaxy Quest go down to a planet to find a mining camp, and mistake small aliens for the miners.
Moon Zero Two revolves around a plot to crash an asteroid composed of sapphire into the Moon's surface so it can be more easily mined.
Moon 44 takes place on an asteroid mining station whose miners are all convicted felons forced to work in the mines as part of their sentences.
Alien: It only really comes up as a background detail, but the crew of the Nostromo are Space Truckers transporting an automated Mobile Factory that's used for asteroid mining.
Moon takes place on a Lunar Helium-3 mining colony consisting of one man and a robot.
The entire point of the setting for Outland is the mining of rare radioactives on Jupiter's moon, Io.
When your local areas become played out and frontiersman mining is no longer viable, you can always move to another star system and start over. A notable aspect of this is that, since space is essentially infinite from a human perspective, the main factor that ended the historic gold rushes - that, eventually, the frontier closes and you run out of easily available deposits to prospect - isn't a factor for asteroid miners. Stories that feature miners IN SPACE! draw a lot of inspiration from (and sometimes directly steal from) stories regarding the various gold and silver rushes of the 1800s. Not to mention not having to deal with the indigenous population. It's much easier to pull materials and resources from a low-gravity asteroid than the huge gravity well of a planet. It should also be noted that asteroid mining is one of the things that make Alien Invasions somewhat inefficient. Creators of science fiction thus came up with the image of the Belters (also known as Rock Rats, Rockskippers, and so on) as rugged, independent types who prefer the freedom of a one-man spaceship and a life of hard work to living under someone else's rules. Spectrographic analysis of the asteroids in Earth's solar system show that there's tons of mineral wealth just floating out there waiting for some daring Prospector with a rocket, a spacesuit, and a drill to go get it.
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