Noosa News
WA gold diviner Bob Biggs says 99 out of 100 people are sceptical of the bush art, ‘but that’s their bad luck’
Bob Biggs has had a nose for gold since he was a teenager when he worked underground on Western Australia’s historic Gwalia mine before it closed in 1963.
Key points:
- Retired pastoralist Bob Biggs describes himself as a self-taught gold diviner
- The 84-year-old began divining for water almost 50 years ago after reading books on the subject
- Sceptics say diviners are “pretty genuine” but all have failed to prove their abilities under test conditions
Now 84, the retired boilermaker and pastoralist is one of only a handful of water diviners remaining in WA.
But Mr Biggs, who now lives in Mundijong in Perth’s outer suburbs, is also a self-described gold diviner.
He readily admits that “99 out of 100” people are sceptics who brush off the bush art…
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