Ciccone workings, Winnecke Goldfield, Georgina Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Ciccone workings	Workings
Winnecke Goldfield	Ore Field
Georgina Range	Mountain Range
Central Desert Region	Region
Northern Territory	Territory
Australia	Country

Pasquale Ciccone (pronounced Chic-own), generally known as Patsy, migrated to Australia in 1926 from Serrata in the Calabria region Italy, with his wife Antonia joining him seven years later. He conducted mining across several locations in Central Australia through the 1930's and 1940's. He was at the Winnecke Goldfield from 1933 to 1940. He was president of the Australian Mica Miner's Association for a time. Around 1950 he moved to Alice Springs opening a grocery store. A street, suburb, and the grocery building in Alice Springs is named after him. He was also charged in 1951 for having several unregistered firearms.

The Ciccone name was named after him by a modern exploration company, Patsy conducting mining operations here sometime in the 1930's. Big Gun was the original historic name from when the goldfield was discovered in 1902. It appears the various names Big Gun, Ciccone, Patsy's and Pyrite Show relate to separate closely spaced locations, probably each on its own auriferous quartz reef. These are located at the eastern side of the goldfield, between the Garland mine, and Russell Gully alluvial field, either side of Russell Gully. There is a suggestion, the track to these locations is now barely passable.

Mineralisation at Big Gun is numerous sub-parallel quartz veins injected along fractures and breccias, in foliated silicified Heavitree Quartzite. These carry patches and stringers of oxidised pyrite. There is a 25 metre open cut at the site. Testing found 2.3 g/t Au on a strike of 3 metres.

The Patsy No. 3 and 5 locations show shallow cuts into steep dipping quartz veins in mylonitic schist and quartzite. Patsy No. 1 and 4 locations contain shallow collapsed underground workings in decomposed schists of the Bitter Springs Formation. There is basal Heavitree Quartzite, then overlying this quartz-sericite schist, then over this weathered pyritic carbonaceous schist veined with quartz. The No. 4 adit tested at 25.7 g/t Au.

In summary, various deposits here include:
Ciccone's mine; Ciccone's open cut; Big Gun propsect; Patsy's No1; No.2; No.3; No.4; and No.5; and Pyrite show.

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