mine for

mine for something

to dig into the ground in search of a mineral, a metal, or an ore. The prospectors ended up mining for coal. What are they mining for in those hills?

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Klaudija	-	Croatian
Alikhan	-	Kazakh
Breda	-	Irish
Nadja	NAHT-yah (German)	German, Slovene
Vladimeru	-	Medieval Slavic
Manolo	mah-NO-lo	Spanish