Juan Godoy
Juan Godoy (1800 – 1842) was a Chilean farmer and miner who in 1832 discovered an outcrop (reventón) of silver 50 km (31 mi) south of Copiapó in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush. == Biography == Godoy was born to Flora Normilla, an indigenous woman, in the reduction of San Fernando in 1800.