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Mining finished at the end of August, 1971 with clean-up taking place the following month. By December, 1971, two caretakers were the only residents remaining on the company payroll.

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The Bralorne mine could have bulldozed every building and property and walked away. Perhaps, they knew as the community did, that the end of an era should not be forgotten, but preserved and remembered for the exciting time that it was.