Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Southern Copper engages in mining and refining copper across Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, and Chile.
Southern Copper
Southern Copper is a major integrated producer of copper and valuable mineral by-products, operating large-scale mining, smelting, and refining facilities across Peru and Mexico. Indirectly controlled by Grupo México, the company extracts, transforms, and commercializes essential mineral resources, including copper, molybdenum, silver, and zinc. Its primary assets comprise major open-pit copper mines such as Toquepala and Cuajone in Peru, as well as Buenavista and La Caridad in Mexico. Southern Copper maintains fully integrated, low-cost operations spanning mineral extraction, concentration, smelting, and refining to supply global industrial and commodity markets.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Southern Copper
- Copper Mining and Refining: Extraction and production of copper concentrates, electrowon cathodes, and copper rod from large open-pit deposits, representing the primary revenue and earnings driver across fully integrated extraction, concentration, smelting, and refining facilities.
- Molybdenum By-Product Production: Extraction and processing of molybdenum concentrate generated as a primary secondary product during copper ore treatment, yielding refined industrial metals for supply to global steelmakers and specialty chemical manufacturers.
- Silver and Precious Metals Recovery: Recovery, refining, and commercialization of silver and gold extracted as mineral by-products during copper concentration and electrolytic refining processes at integrated metallurgical facilities in Peru and Mexico.
- Zinc Mining and Processing: Extraction and refining of zinc concentrates and refined zinc metal from underground mining units, supplying industrial markets with corrosion-resistant metals used extensively in steel galvanizing and manufacturing.
- Peruvian Mining Operations: Open-pit mining, concentrating, smelting, and refining activities based in southern Peru, centered on the Toquepala and Cuajone open-pit copper deposits alongside integrated processing facilities in the Moquegua and Tacna regions.
- Mexican Mining Operations: Open-pit copper extraction, smelting, and refining complexes located in Sonora, Mexico, anchored by the Buenavista and La Caridad operations, featuring solvent extraction-electrowinning plants, smelters, and copper rod facilities.
Southern Copper executive team
- Engineer Oscar Gonzalez RochaPresident, CEO & Director
- Mr. Raul Jacob RuisanchezVP of Finance, Treasurer & CFO
- Ms. Lina A. Vingerhoets VilcaComptroller
- Mr. Julian Jorge Lazalde PsihasSecretary
- Mr. Victor PedraglioManager of Financial Planning & Investor Relations
- Mr. Andres Carlos Ferrero GhislieriGeneral Counsel
- Mr. Juan Fernando Nunez ChavezVice President of Explorations
- Mr. Patricio Ovejas SimonExecutive Vice President