[5] This was widely reported throughout Australia and Charles Chewings said that there were exposed reefs that stood "nearly vertical" and that "in all of these free gold is visible in nearly every stone broken".

[5] In 1903 a guide and handbook was produced by Robert Sands Frearson which included the warning:[7] While faithfully placing before the public my impression regarding the probable good results that will follow the expenditure of capital on the Arltunga and Winnecke’s Depot Goldfields, I must warn all men who think of going to these fields that, unless they have their best friend (say £75 to £100) in their pockets, they will most undoubtedly, have tremendous hardships to encounter.In 1905 a Coorong Battery was placed at the Coorong Gold Mine at the goldfield, and it is an example of early steam engine technology of Hawke and Co.[8][9][10] The battery was located on the side of the hill, so slurry would fall over the amalgamation plates.

They had disappeared as completely as if picked up in a whirlwind and scattered across the near-by Simpson Desert.From 1933 some of the miners at the Winnecke Goldfield were Italian migrants Pascale "Patsy" and Maria Antonia Ciccone and their three most productive workings there were 'Patsy's Prospect', Big Gun' and 'Pyritic Show'.

[13] With government aid they bought a small crushing plant but they struggled to succeed there and moved on to the Tennant Creek and Wauchope Wolfram Fields.

In 1938 they returned to Winnecke, alongside their Giuseppe and Maria Concetta Gagliardi (their son-in-law and daughter) for a short time due to insufficient water being available to run the larger equipment.