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from Des Higgins contains these words:

The only remotely helpful (or not) thing that I can remember about
horsetails is that some of them are fussy regarding mineral nutrients
which is why some are patchily distributed.

Another is that they take-up compounds containing gold.

In areas where there is a lot of gold which is uneconomical to extract,
horsetails are dried and burnt and gold extracted from the ash.

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Rusty
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