Management Change/Compensation (Form 8-K)

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.

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