Mining Hook to mine Ceiling Ores

I was wandering through a VERY big cave, and I noticed an issue. Ores that generate in the Ceiling of very Big Caves are a TOTAL pain to mine, it's not much fun to just pillar up to them, it doesn't feel good. So, what if some sort of Hookshot or some other tool along those lines was added so that you could harvest these ceiling ores from afar? To be balanced, the EXP could be reduced or altogether nullified. The base version would simply break the ore and let it drop. There could even be an upgraded version that brings the harvested resources back.

Not only would this make mining ceiling ores less of a pain, but it could also have fun applications in other areas such as combat, rounding up Mobs, Minigames, etc. 

I don't think Grappling Hook Mechanics would really work so I'm not suggesting them, but It's an interesting though.