Show Prospectors Interested In Plant That Eats Gold The plant known as horsetail or scouring plant is actually a agold agold gold eater Found most common common- commonly ly where gold is present in the soil this plant absorbs gold from the soil and stores it in its tissues Although approximately 4 s ounces of gold is found in a ton of horse horse- horsetail horsetail 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 scrub scrub- scrubbing scrubbing bing table t tops ps pots and pans |