Ultrarealistic documentary footage. A highland mining lavra in Minas Gerais, early 18th century — a hillside alluvial mining operation with multiple workers and enslaved Africans sluicing red earth into troughs of running water. An emboaba overseer in leather boots and a wide hat stands above the operation on a ridge, watching. Below him, bandeirante miners work their adjacent claim with visibly less access to labor. The contrast in scale and organization between the two operations is clear in the geography of the hillside. Overcast cool light falls flat across the hillside, revealing the spatial division without drama. Visual-only scene. No music. Clean frame.