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Strangely enough, many years ago I read the following webcomic about something similar: http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0587/ http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0587/ The story was about a racoon farmer trying to leech bauxite from the soil and created a plant to do it.