Gold mining style in eightee nth century slave operated mines.

A historiografia sobre as minas apega-se ?s determina??es econ?micas e t?cnicas da atividade mineradora, na Am?rica portuguesa. Buscamos, no entanto, relacionar t?cnica e direito (legal e costumeiro), salientando que este fundamenta a din?mica ou evolu??o das pr?ticas miner?rias. Abordamos, ainda, as rela??es de trabalho constitu?das nas unidades de extra??o aur?fera: das diversas formas de associa??o ?s faisqueiras.The historiography of mines is closely related to economic and technical demands of the mining activity in Portuguese America. We seek to relate technique and Law (criminal and common) emphasizing that the latter substantiates the dynamics or evolution of the mining practices. We still cover labor relations incorporated in the gold extraction units, i.e., the diverse manners of association to gold lodes