Series 173: Sulphide Corporation lead smelting

PXE 731/1383-1391

series

between 1920 and 1969

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records

412340

8 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 25 x 31 cm or smaller
1 item of textual material (2 pages) - typescript

Manuscript:

1383. Letter from H.F. Melouney of Sulphide Corporation Pty Limited to The Department of Education Visual Education Centre, dated 23 January 1962, describing the 8 photographs of lead smelting

Photographs:

1384. General view of plant
1385. Air pre-heater for heating the blast air to the Imperial Smelting Furnace
1386. Bottom of Imperial Smelting Furnace showing the row of tuyeres on the north side through which the blast air is blown into the furnace
1387. View of metal store showing zinc in foreground and lead bullion in background
1388. General view of the old smelter, Cockle Creek. For economic reasons smelting of lead ores concluded at Cockle Creek in 1922
1389. Bottom of old type lead blast furnace showing tuyeres
1390. Handling lead blast furnace slag in hand pots prior to closure in 1922
1391. Loading refined lead from the old Cockle Creek Refinery

Photographs arranged by numerical order used in letter

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

Titled from accompanying envelope.

'Visual Education Centre, Burwood, 24.1.62' stamped on Page 1 at PXE 731/1383.