Southern Copper Corporation

Southern Copper Corporation engages in mining exploring smelting and refining copper and other minerals in Peru Mexico Argentina Ecuador and Chile The company is involved in the mining milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper and molybdenum concentrates smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes production of molybdenum concentrate and sulfuric acid production of refined silver gold and other materials and mining and processing of zinc and lead It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone openpit mines and a smelter and refinery in Peru and La Caridad an openpit copper mine as well as a copper ore concentrator a SXEW plant a smelter refinery and a rod plant in Mexico The company also operates Buenavista an openpit copper mine as well as two copper concentrators and two operating SXEW plants in Mexico In addition it operates five underground mines that produce zinc lead copper silver and gold a coal mine that produces coal and coke and a zinc refinery The company has interests in 82134 hectares of exploration concessions in Peru 493533 hectares of exploration concessions in Mexico 246346 hectares of exploration concessions in Argentina 29888 hectares of exploration concessions in Chile and 7299 hectares of exploration concessions in Ecuador Southern Copper Corporation was incorporated in 1952 and is based in Phoenix Arizona Southern Copper Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Americas Mining Corporation