UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): April 17, 2025 (April 10, 2025)

SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware	1-14066	13-3849074
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification Number)

7310 North 16th St. Suite 135, Phoenix, AZ 85020

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(602) 264-1375

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class:	Trading Symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered:
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share	SCCO	New York Stock Exchange Lima Stock Exchange

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ITEM 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On April 10, 2025, the Board of Directors of Southern Copper Corporation (“SCC” or the “Company”) appointed Mr. Juan Fernando Nuñez Chávez as the Company’s Vice President, Explorations to replace Mr. Edgard Corrales. Mr. Corrales assumed a new role within Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Sucursal del Perú as the Advising Director of New Projects effective April 10, 2025.

Mr. Nuñez Chávez is 67 years old. He is a Geological Engineer by profession and has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry, working primarily as a geologist in the exploration of metallic mineral deposits. He has a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, in Arequipa, Peru and has a Master of Science and PhD in Geology from the he Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima, Peru. He has served as the Explorations Manager of Southern Peru Copper Corporation since 2000. Previously, he worked for different mining companies as an Exploration Advisor Geologist and carried out several mineralogical studies in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico. He has been a university professor at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru and the Universidad San Agustín de Arequipa, in Arequipa, Peru. He was president of the Lima Chapter of Geological Engineers of the College of Engineers of Peru from 2016 to 2018.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


	SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION


	By:	/s/ Andres C. Ferrero
	Name:	Andres C. Ferrero
	Title:	General Counsel

Date: April 17, 2025

SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/ 8-K