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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.
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- 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.