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Re: Very old water well design , can you help identify others like it

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From: Peter Jason
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:58
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"kangarooistan" <kangarooistan9@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On May 23, 8:04 am, "Peter Jason" <p...@jostle.com> wrote:
> Look for similar designs in Portugal & Holland. Perhaps
> there were detours from the Spice Islands.
>
> "kangarooistan" <kangarooist...@gmail.com> wrote in 
> message
>
> news:6f2ed38a-bba6-4f8c-b1a4-bbd4d1f904fc@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > If we can find more like it in other places we may
> > discover WHO mined
> > the coorong Heavy Mineral Sand HMS many years ago
>
> > Im working on finding some more wells like this one
> >http://www.planbooktravel.com.au/region-images/SA/limestone-coast/lim...
>
> > its in the sand hills at 42 mile creek on the Coorong in
> > South
> > Australia , but I suspect it may be many thousands of
> > years old
> >http://www.arta.com.au/samaps/maps/coorong.gif
>
> > White people call it chinamans well but it was named
> > before chinamen
> > were in the area , and it was used by early settlers
>
> > Its very old , but no chinaman built it IMHO , Its 
> > design
> > may
> > indicate who did
>
> > Do you recall seeing any like it in your travels ? or 
> > can
> > you ask your
> > friends if they can find an exact match else where
>
> > Its clearly built by somebody who knew exactly what they
> > were doing ,
> > so Im going to try and find more like it , and I suspect
> > it may be
> > built by the " sea peoples " in ancient times as its 
> > clear
> > somebody
> > was mining the Heavy Mineral Sands on this coast on a
> > VAST scale ,
> > effectively what you see today as the Coorong and lower
> > Lakes are man
> > made , mines working the sands washed down the 2500 km
> > River Murray
> > over many millions of years
>
> > SOMEBODY worked out most of the easy deposits within
> > walking distance
> > to water , long before Europeans arrived in 1836
>
> > kanga
> > =====
>
>

I suspect it was made by an expert , probably there are 
others ,
perhaps identical ,  in design , most unusual to find this 
one where
it is , wonder WHY others have not questioned it long ago , 
the old
account about " chinamen" was accepted without question as 
there were
a age number of Chinese pass through in 1850s but the well 
was in use
before that  , I suspect there will be matches found 
eventually


my research of the old iron tool has proven beyond all doubt 
that
there is VAST VAST mining activity here is South Australia 
3000 years
ago

Wait till you see it all laid out neatly

The Coorong and Lower Murray lakes ARE MAN MADE  Heavy 
mineral Sand
mines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_mineral_sands_ore_deposits

Over 150 km long dug by hand
http://www.arta.com.au/samaps/maps/coorong.gif

a project of Pyramid and Great wall of China scale,  and 
nobody
noticed it because we All assumed nobody visited the state 
back then

Until WE found this 3000 year old iron tool and purple 
leather in
south Australia
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/KangarooistanOldIronToolProofTurinPapyrusGoldMineIsInSouthAustraliaTestImages#

and THIS  old well in south Australia
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=chinamans%20well%20south%20australia&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enAU291AU291&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

And asked Why can you find Heavy Mineral Sands {  HMS } , 
every where
the ancient river used to be but NONE where the present 
Lower Lakes
and Coorong is now and has been for about 6 000 years at the 
END of a
2500km long river plus its tributaries

The ABSENCE of HMS , is evidence somebody mined it long ago 
IMHO, as
the  expected white quartz sands are still there , but the 
expected
HMS are not , now we KNOW where the ancient " sea peoples " 
got their
wealth

OOPS , how do you lose a City , please remind me again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city#Lost_cities_by_continent


The Murray-Darling Basin is 3,375 km long, drains 
one-seventh of the
Australian land mass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Darling_Basin

vast amounts of quartz sand  made it down river but no HMS 
within a
days walk of water ,and HMS further inland indicate the HMS 
near the
water was mined long ago

AND matches the demand at the time for tin to serve the 
bronze age
that can not have been met by the known tin mines in UK

I suspect the well is 3000 years old myself , and may 
possibly be
found in other ancient sites that were lost from history and 
not
upgraded as many wells were

kanga
====


There were Cornish miners in the area in the 1800s 
processing tin ores, if I recall, and the stonework they 
built was of Cornish design.
Check out Cornwall in England.
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