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Just in time for busy Memorial day weekend travel, Highway 12 will reopen Friday after a crack formed collapsing a portion of the Purgatoire River bridge Wednesday.

The bridge, near mile marker 47, is along a scenic byway that winds west from Trinidad up into the Sangre De Cristo mountains.

Brock Denny heads into the Bates Mine to operate a "continuous miner" machine that chews through rock and coal at the New Elk Coal Company's mine west of Trinidad Monday, September 26, 2011.