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An open-sided adobe and stone refining yard at Potosí below Cerro Rico, 1571–1572: compacted earth floor, rough timber posts, one large wooden mixing trough, and a mountain slope softened in the distance. Fernández’s shoe soles contact the compacted floor outside the cajón; both hands encircle the cup; the tilted lip projects just inside the trough rim. The mercury stream begins at the cup lip, falls vertically under gravity, contacts the ore paste, and pools into rounded beads along a hoe furrow. The cajón’s base rests flat on the earthen floor; pegged walls join at all corners and fully contain the paste. The refiner’s feet press the trough floor beneath the paste; both hands close around the hoe; its buried blade pushes a continuous ridge through the mixture. Mercury beads reflect the bright left sky and dark nearby timber edge; the matte ore paste carries diffuse light. The two adults are about 1.7 m tall beside a 3.0 m by 1.6 m trough whose rim reaches just below the knee. 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