Series 172: Copper, Port Kembla

PXE 731/1366-1382

series

1950s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Cartographic Materials

412331

15 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 21 x 26 cm or smaller
1 booklet (22 pages) - printed - 18 x 25 cm
3 maps - printed - 29.7 x 21.0 cm

1366. Map of Port Kembla and District. Scale: 80cm = 1 mile
1367. Electrolytic refining tanks
1368. Tanks, withdrawing cathodes
1369-1371. Casting billets
1372. Wire bar furnace for casting market shapes
1373. Charging crane charging scrap anodes, mainly charges blister copper
1374. Casting anodes for electrolytic refining
1375. Charging cathodes to the wirebar furnace
1376. Pouring blister copper from converter
1377. Casting billets from electric furnace
1378. Bluestone, crystalizing tanks. Granulated bluestone produced under vacuum copper sulfate
1379. Ore storage gantry, The Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Proprietary Limited, Military Road, Port Kembla
1380. Baghouse and filter

Printed:

1381. Copper smelting and refining at Port Kembla. A description of the plant and processes used for the production of refined copper market shapes, and associated products / The Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Proprietary Limited. Port Kembla, New South Wales, ESA, 1950
1382. Wollongong District Map / NRMA, RACA and Boyded Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NRMA. Contains A4 and B5 Wollongong and District maps and smaller town plan of Wollongong

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Titled from accompanying envelope.

PXE 731/1367 and PXE 731/1375-1377 on 20 x 25 cm cardboard mount.
On the reverse of mount of PXE 731/1367 and PXE 731/1375-1377 is an enlarged, titled, black and white photocopy of the photographic print.
Loose pages at PXE 731/1381.

'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse of photographs and on printed material. 'Arthur Cratchley, commercial photographer, 28 The Boulevarde, Mt. St. Thomas' stamped on reverse of most images.