Special Achievements

• First woman to own and operate an opal mine in Coober Pedy, South Australia.  Established “The Opal Cave” in 1963 and gave the first tour of Coober Pedy.

Additional Information

• Faye is the author of Warm in My Heart:  Ballads of the Opal Field:  Original Stories and Ballads.  She and two women friends such as Sue Bernard dug out “Faye’s Underground Home” with hand tools and a wheelbarrow over a period of ten years.

Link - NAYLER, Faye

National Road Transport Hall of Fame

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Link - THE TOWN UNDERNEATH AUSTRALIA

National Geographic

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Link - Teen-agers from all States exchange ideas

Trove: Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), Saturday 15 January 1949, page 25

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