---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-004933"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCCO"
cik: "0001001838"
company_name: "SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/"
filed_at: "2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T11:23:21.654204+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern Copper appoints Juan Fernando Nuñez Chávez as VP of Explorations

## Summary
- Appointed April 10, 2025; replaces Edgard Corrales.
- Corrales becomes Advising Director of New Projects at Southern Peru Copper subsidiary.
- Nuñez Chávez, 67, has over 40 years mining experience; was Explorations Manager since 2000.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-004933
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCCO
- cik: 0001001838
- company_name: SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/
- filed_at: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/000155837025004933/0001558370-25-004933-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/000155837025004933/scco-20250410x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-004933
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-004933.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-004933.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Edgard Corrales departed as Vice President, Explorations at SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/.
  - Role: Vice President, Explorations
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/000155837025004933/0001558370-25-004933-index.htm
- Executive change
  Juan Fernando Nuñez Chávez was appointed as Vice President, Explorations at SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Explorations
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/000155837025004933/0001558370-25-004933-index.htm

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