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.

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…