'mine for information' is a correct and usable phrase in written English, often used as a metaphor to mean to search for information or knowledge.
Example: I have to mine for information about the local school district before I decide where to send my kids.
Researchers are using these pools of big data to mine for information in search of new tools to help find ways to screen and identify disease and other health risks earlier.
The Feds — the NSA would seem the most logical agency —then analyze the data to mine for information they deem of interest.
Although such ancient proteins have not yet been recovered form hominin fossils, these studies prove that such ancient proteins can survive and are fast becoming a resource to mine for information about the biology of organisms too old to produce ancient DNA.
If Trump asks him to mine for information he can use against anyone or any company or any official, do you really think Rudy will deny him?
Many microarray chips contain probes that are annotated as 'non-protein coding', indicating that there might be some valuable expression data that we can also mine for information.
SAMMD is a web accessible database that allows users to mine for information about a single or several genes.
It was interested in mining for information about the Mail's business model".
You follow its progress scrupulously, listening over the fence, staring from across the road, mining for information on its completion like a one-man espionage unit.
IN PURSUIT OF COHEN, ONE DEAD END | The government's investigation of suspicious trading at SAC Capital Advisors has relied on lower-level employees who are mined for information about the firm's boss, Steven A. Cohen.
And most of my memories of him are of his constant conversations with friends, colleagues and acquaintances, whom he mined for information on the inside story of what was happening in the countries they came from, digging out dirt on the governance of the game around the world.
What is referred to here as inverse problems are actually a very broad field that encompasses any study where data is gathered and mined for information.
