It is a feature I've wanted for awhile but never asked until I came across theDragn's WhicMod and realized it was possible to show additional text on each ship and weapon regardless of what mod it comes from. TY
WhichMod uses a hack - it edits every mod's description files. Useful, mostly harmless, but a hack nonetheless.
Thank you for pointing that out SafariJohn. The more I look into it I do not think it would work anyway since there seems to be two different ways mining is handled and it is separate from the weapon and ship files.
I've been digging around various mods to see how they interact with Nexerelin’s mining mini game. I noted that some have two files in the data folder "\data\config\exerelin". The first seems to be for mining weapons (mining_weapons.csv) and the second for mining ships (mining_ships.csv).
On top of the mining_ships.csv and mining_weapons.csv files I have also learned that mining values can also be set in modSettings.json (found in \data\config) under the lines "mining_ship_strengths" and "mining_weapon_strengths". This is how Nexerelin does it in its own folders for vanilla stuff and how some mods like Scy do it.
Essentially it looks like Nexerelin originally used those csv files because I had noticed that in Nexerelin those files just say "#deprecated; use modSettings.json instead,," but 4 of the mods I checked (haven’t checked them all) still used the mining_ships.csv and mining_weapons.csv files.
This is becoming a deeper rabbit hole than I had expected lol.