[3] He worked variously as goatherd and farmer with his mother but also as miner and woodcutter before the discovery of Chañarcillo.

[6][7] According to folklore, Godoy was guided to the riches of Chañarcillo by an alicanto, a bird pertaining to Chilean mythology.

[8] He successfully claimed the associated mining rights for the silver outcrop for himself and his brother José Godoy.

[2][4] Notoriously, local business leader Miguel Gallo also appeared registered as owning a third of the claim from the beginning.

[4] The reason is said to have been that Flora had known about the silver outcrop and told Gallo many times about it without him bothering about finding out the truth of it.

[1] Having squandered the fortune earned from the selling of his minings rights Godoy sought and was granted work in La Descubridora by Gallo.