Raw Stone Shed

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/40 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dark granular material banks high across the floor of the raw stone shed at Kandos Cement Works, the remnants of a final load left where it settled when operations ceased. Rectangular openings in the corrugated iron roof throw distinct shafts of daylight onto the mound, picking out its rough surface against the shadowed interior. The roof structure recedes in near symmetry toward a large opening at the far end.

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In situ

Raw Stone Shed at Kandos Cement Works, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Raw Stone Shed at Kandos Cement Works, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Raw Stone Shed at Kandos Cement Works, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Raw Stone Shed
Series: Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue: KCW-032
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 February 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/40 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

The raw stone shed at Kandos Cement Works is a steel-clad building that held crushed limestone after it arrived from the quarry and before it went to the raw mills. The shed has a high pitched roof in corrugated iron, with the roof line broken by a long monitor vent running along the apex. The floor is open concrete, sloped to a central reclaim conveyor that ran beneath the stockpile. The walls are clad in steel sheet from the inside, scored and dented where front-end loaders worked the stockpile against them. A residue of limestone fines covers the floor in places, pale grey, almost white where the daylight reaches it. Roller doors at one end open onto the truck and conveyor route from the quarry side.

The Kandos plant was built specifically because of the limestone deposit alongside it. Limestone is the primary raw material in Portland cement, accounting for roughly four-fifths of the input mix. The quarry was the reason the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company purchased the 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior in 1913. Stone moved from the quarry by aerial ropeway in the early decades and later by conveyor and truck, accumulating in sheds like this one to buffer the supply against the mills' steady demand. The plant produced cement for 95 years until closure in September 2011. The reclaim conveyor underneath the shed is one of the last things in here that was still moving on the day the works closed.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Dark heaps of crusite and stone dust cover the floor, rising in uneven mounds that nearly reach the steel crossbeams. Corrugated iron panels line both sides of the shed roof, converging in a long triangular corridor. Green light bleeds through gaps where sheets have shifted. An overhead gantry runs the full length of the ridge. At the far end, a pale wall and tangled vegetation close off the structure.

Brett Patman

The series

Kandos Cement Works

40 photographs

Kandos Cement Works made Portland cement at Kandos, south-east of Mudgee in central western New South Wales, from 1916 until 2011. The New South Wales Cement, Lime and Coal Company, registered in 1913, built it 3.5 miles east of its limestone quarry, which fed the works by aerial ropeway. By 1927 its rotary kilns were steel cylinders 143 feet long and 9 feet in diameter, fired with powdered coal, and the finished cement went into 30 storage silos.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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