CASE STUDY New Mexico: Weather Monitoring Chevron Mining, Inc., (CMI) owned and operated a 6.6 million-metric- ton-per-year (6.6 million-U.S.-ton) molybdenum mining and processing operation in northern New Mexico until June of 2014. The operation included ore transport, crushing, concentration, and drying. The facility also included 4.3 megawatts of gas or diesel electrical generation. Montrose Air Quality Services (MAQS) operated a network of meteorological and groundwater monitoring stations for CMI from 1995 through mine closure. The mine is currently in closure status and is under the control of Chevron Environmental Management Corporation (EMC). MAQS continues to operate a large network of meteorological and groundwater-lysimeter monitoring stations at the project

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