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1) make sure mine_interval is set in your minion config

2) add mine functions to your minions pillars:
mine_functions:
  grains.items: []

3) wait until this returns data on your salt master:
salt '*' mine.get '*' grains.items

4) mine data from minions is now available in states like this:
salt['mine.get']('myminion*', 'grains.items')

5) mine data from minions is now available in pillars like this:
salt['saltutil.runner']('mine.get', tgt='myminion*', fun='grains.items', tgt_type='compound')

6) if there are multiple minions returned, you'll need to do a for loop over it:
{% for host, grains in salt['mine.get']('myminion*', 'grains.items').items() %}

7) if you have a minion than requires alot of mine data, and you start to have timeout problems when you run state.highstate, this was my work around:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/21403#issuecomment-172723015