Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.
Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.

Mixing Station Feed Conveyor

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1.6s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rusting metal and peeling grey paint define the mixing station feed conveyor at Kandos Cement Works. This machinery once moved raw materials, now standing silent amidst the industrial decay.

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Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.Mixing Station Feed Conveyor at Kandos Cement Works, this conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Mixing Station Feed Conveyor
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-021
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1.6s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Kandos, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Kandos, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A feed conveyor leading into the mixing station at Kandos Cement Works runs at a steady incline from a low hopper at the floor level up to the top of the mixing bay, ending in a chute that drops its load onto the dosing belts below. The conveyor is a steel-cased belt running over fixed idlers, its drive head at the upper end on a fabricated steel frame. Pale grey-white deposits of cement dust line the underside of the housing where small amounts of material have escaped over time. The belt itself is rubber, scored from years of running raw meal across it. Side panels of the housing have been opened in places for inspection access. The frame is anchored to a series of concrete piers under the run.

Mixing stations at a cement works combine ground raw material in proportioned doses before it goes to the kiln feed. Limestone, clay or shale, and minor corrective materials are weighed and metered onto separate belts, then combined into a single feed stream that meets the chemical specification the kiln requires. The conveyor in this photograph fed one component into that mix. Kandos Cement Works produced cement to specification for 95 years, including the cement supplied to the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1928 and 1932 under contract to Dorman Long & Co. The plant closed in September 2011 and the conveyor has been idle since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

This conveyor once fed raw stone to the mixing station, ensuring a steady supply of material for cement production. Above it, the tripper redirected stone to either side of the belt, distributing it into various hoppers below.

Brett Patman

Kandos Cement Works

The series

Kandos Cement Works

2016 · 40 photographs

The town's first name was Candos, an acronym of the directors' surnames at the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company. They bought 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior for £2,000 in 1913 and had surveyor James Dawson lay out the township. The Postmaster General ruled the name change to Kandos in 1915, and by August 1916 the kilns at the new cement works were firing.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM KANDOS CEMENT WORKS

39 other prints in this series

All prints
Number Six Raw Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a ball mill sits heavy in the half-light, its riveted steel drum tilted toward.
Number Six Raw Mill $100.00
Clinker Shed at Kandos Cement Works, steel trusses span the full width of the shed, supported by heavy columns streaked.
Clinker Shed $100.00
Cyclonic Separator at Kandos Cement Works, steel mesh grating covers the floor, open to the darkness below.
Cyclonic Separator $100.00
Number Six Ball Mill Drive at Kandos Cement Works, the motor and gearbox that once drove the ball mill, now sitting.
Number Six Ball Mill Drive $100.00
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