Southern Copper is one of the world’s largest copper miners. It sits on vast, low-cost deposits in Peru and Mexico that turn rock into cash with rare efficiency, and it sends almost all of that cash upstream to its Mexican parent. Full nameSouthern Copper Corporation Tickers / exchangeSCCO (NYSE); SCCO.LIM (BVL / Lima) HeadquartersPhoenix, Arizona, USA SectorMining (copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver) Employees16,133 (2024) Market value*Data not published in a single exchange-filings figure – see SEC filings for share count and price. Yearly sales (2025)USD 13,420.0 million Net profit (2025)USD 4,334.9 …
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