Water divining,fact or fable? I believe fact, to some extent at least. Although it is not an exact science. Divining, also known as dowsing has been used for entries to find water and gold. The Chinese and Egyptians to find coal deposits also used it in the middle Ages.
Water divining is widely used with out any scientific evidence to support it.
I spent 8 years opal mining at Lightning Ridge and while I was there I did quite a bit of opal exploration drilling. Of the 800 to 900 holes I drilled I would divine the area first. Looking for fault junctions, this is the most likely place opal is formed.
Kangaroo tracks always show up as major fault lines, it must be easier or more comfortable for them to travel on major faults?
I am absolutely sure I was divining faults, because these faults showed up in the identical place underground. They are very obvious in the walls of the mine. I used divining so I would know how far I was from the next fault junction when tunnelling.
I believe while divining water I am feeling faults, and these could be reservoirs for water, or, more likely they are the edges of underground streams. But this I mean that a section between two major faults has sunk. This sunken section then becomes an underground stream.
©Sam Hensen 2009
