No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.
No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.

No 4 Cement Mill

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Massive industrial machinery dominates No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works. Light filters through high windows, illuminating the heavy gears and concrete surfaces. Dust settles silently across the abandoned plant.

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No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.No 4 Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
No 4 Cement Mill
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-024
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
4s 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

Number Four Cement Mill at Kandos Cement Works is a horizontal grinding mill set in a tall steel-framed bay on the southern side of the plant. The mill body is a long steel cylinder lying on heavy trunnion bearings, with a discharge end opening into the cement collection ducting and a feed end where clinker entered from the conveyor above. The shell is darkened from operation, with patches of fresher steel where wear plates have been replaced. The drive end at one side carries the girth gear, still meshed with the pinion. Inspection covers along the length of the shell are bolted shut. Cement dust has settled on the upper surfaces of the mill and along the steel galleries that run around it.

Cement mills grind clinker into the fine powder that is finished cement. Steel balls inside the rotating cylinder break the clinker down progressively as the mill turns. Number Four Cement Mill was one of the cement mills in service when the works closed. Kandos Cement Works operated for 95 years from August 1916 to September 2011. Through the late 1920s and into the early 1930s, cement from the Kandos mills supplied the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the bridge's sole cement supplier under contract to Dorman Long & Co. The mill stopped turning at closure and has stayed in place since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A massive ball mill fills the ground floor, its riveted steel drum disappearing into a green discharge chamber. Concrete foundations rise thick around the base, caked inite powder and chemical residue. A yellow safety railing, bent and dulled, guards the narrow walkway. Steel grating overhead filters thin light across the machinery. The floor is loose rubble and hardite sedite. Everything carries the same chalky grey film.

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

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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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