I think I can help here based on my enormous recent mining experience
For the quiet zone, I targeted a Low RES but came in low and early slowing down to drop out speed but didn't drop until I was seeing the rocks below me, then dropped out of SC. I was a long way from the RES but with just 3 or 4 boosts down I was in amongst the rocks. On arrival I was scanned once by a pirate NPC, because I had no cargo he left and once by a system authority vessel. After that I never saw another ship, so I think they are just programmed encounters. So on that I would suggest the one that can take the biggest haul of cargo and the most collector limpet modules. Don't bother with prospector limpets unless you are going to target Painite, which I am doing as the last 10T of my 500.
If you are dumping the rubbish as I am then any of them can do it, with careful managing because limpets take up the cargo space you are also trying to fill, so as soon as they fill you dump. But when it comes to the Painite you want to keep and take to Selene Jean then you'll either need to play the interdiction mini-game, run or fight because no doubt the game mechanics with throw a interdiction your way, so the ship choice is yours.
With: 2x medium mining lasers, 1 refinery, 2 collector limpet controllers, as much cargo as you can make then fill it with limpets. Some things refined were worth 300cr some were worth 2000+ cr. Basically go biggest on all that you can.
I spent about 2.5hr mining to collect 251t in total and watched Thunderball on TV at the same time.
Closest RES for general mining -
http://edtools.ddns.net/res.php?s=wanga ... on&f_lo=onClosest pristine metallic ring for Painite (possibly) -
http://edtools.ddns.net/?s=wangal&md=200