Southern Copper Corporation, a subsidiary of Americas Mining Corporation, was founded in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1952 and operates as a leading player in the mining industry. The company's core business involves the exploration, extraction, smelting, and refining of copper and other essential minerals throughout Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, and Chile. Its comprehensive operations cover the full lifecycle of copper production: from the mining, milling, and flotation of copper ore to generate copper and molybdenum concentrates, through the smelting phase to produce blister and anode copper, and culminating in the refining of anode copper into high-purity copper cathodes.