Show Prospectors Interested In Plant That Eats Eats' Gold The plant known as horsetail or scouring plant is actually a agold agold agold gold eater Found most commonly common common- ly where gold is present in the soil this plant absorbs gold from the soil and stores it in its tissues Although approximately 4 ounces of gold is found in a ton of horsetail horsetail horsetail horse horse- tail prospectors are not interested in the plant as a source of gold but rather as an indicator of gold goldin in the ground Because of its high silica content this plant was also a favorite in olden times for scrubbing scrubbing scrubbing scrub scrub- bing table tops pots and pans |