Ships & Modules

Your best defences against ganks are tank, movement and being aware of who is in local with you.
If you can'f fit a T2 damage control and T2 shield tank then train that now as well as the support skills.
When mining DON'T sit still, always move i.e. orbit the asteroid you are mining at 10km.
Gankers will strike fast enough that a falcon or pvp alt will not have time to react so don't bother with them.
Set CODE to -10 standings and if local spikes with reds dock up.

Fit your procurer something like;
T2 strip miner

T2 adaptive invuln x2
T2 em ward field
T2 medium shield extender

T2 damage control
T2 mining laser upgrade

thermal reinforcer
core defense field extender x2

This should give you ~80,000 ehp with good skills and at this point its not economicaly worth killing you

Falcon,blackbird work, so do tornadoes or any of the attackbattlecrisers for that matter.

Just lock and pop the ones with low enough sec status , it's funny as hell and you never know , you might even save the miners.

I can hardly call a Procuror squishy...

I presume that you believe them to be squishy-er due to low skill totals - but the Procuror still mounts a formidible tank.

A quick and slapdash play around gives me this:

Procuror:

High;
Strip Miner I

Mid;
EM Ward Field I
Kinetic Deflection Field I
Thermic Dissipation Field I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

Low;
Damage Control I
Mining Laser Upgrade I

Rig;
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

That fits with nothing more than the Mining Barge, Mining and Hull Upgrades, Tactical Shield Manipulation (all at [1]) Astrogeology [3], and Mining [4] over the starting skills.

With just these skills it has over 9k shield hitpoints, EM and Explosive resists in the region of 65% and Kin resist @ 78% and Thermal @ 70% - a pretty hefty proposition for Catalysts... (700 base DPS - about 170 DPS after resists - means over 50 seconds worth of shields).
Working on the basis of simply being less viable than the other guy is not an entirely safe option but you can back it up - a Bantam or Griffon in belt might add to the disinsentive but even just loading a flight of Hornet EC-300s will make life for the Cat's difficult.

Blackbird or Griffin will be much cheaper and you can get into them much faster.

Gank Coercers then start to become the most profitable option - they aren't far behind on damage.

It really depends on what the gankers are flying. Most use catalysts which do not do great EM or Explosive damage because of the ammo used. They are normally using T2 blasters and Void or Null ammo. You should be tanking for kinetic / Thermal damage.

And make sure your drone skills are trained so yo can use all 5 or your drones. Always keep an eye on local and Dscan and if your doing something like AFK mining then nothing is going to help you.

They will still work but the ECM modules themselves are race specific, so you would need the right one(s) to have the best chance of jamming.

Woman! Get back in the kitchen Mining Barge

As long as the only way to defeat gankers is to run away or wait for them to shoot you first, the advise in this thread is probably the best way to go.
I'd say something about there needing to be actual consequences for criminal actions, but from what I've seen that tends to result in locked threads and threats.

I know your just playing lol mining is just my stepping stone, usually have to level a toon to 80/90 to get to the good stuff anyway hehehe I'm just trying to make it more exciting and thinking outside the box =) and i really don't know what the hell I'm doing or the fits, so you guys are really helpful =)