Mountain Destruction by mining

I have a mountain in a story that basically needs to be taken down (inadvertently) by human action in a world with premodern (so mediÃ«val/ early renaissance at best) tech levels. I have been thinking of a couple of scenarios (if all fails i can Always pull the ole magic card) to pull this off and came up with one i kind of like but i just want to know how plausible this is.

Could excessive (strip)mining of a mountain eventually cause it to have so many tunnels/holes in it's inner structure to cause a sizeable portion of its top (peak and upper slope) to collapse in on itself?

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