UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

November 5, 2007

(Date of Report/Date of earliest event reported)

 

SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

11811 North Tatum Blvd., Suite 2500, Phoenix, AZ 85028

(Address and zip code of principal executive offices)

 

(602) 494-5328

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not Applicable

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

 

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Table of Contents

 

Item 8.01 Other Events		3
Signatures		3

 

 

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ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS

 

Southern Copper Corporation (the “Company”) announced that it is operating with 80% of its personnel, which together with key personnel of the Company, ensured normal operations at the Peruvian units of the Company. It was further announced that only three of the eight unions of the Company had joined the national strike declared on November 5, 2007 by the National Federation of the Mining, Metallurgical, and Steel workers of Peru. The Company reported that all its Peruvian units are operating at 100% capacity and that it does not anticipate any production loss resulting from the national strike declared by the above-mentioned Federation.

 

Additionally, it was announced that the Peruvian Labor Ministry had declared improper the term of the strike presented by said Federation and the unions of workers of Toquepala and Annexes. Accordingly, the Company expects that the national strike will end in the next few days.

 

SIGNATURES

 

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

 

		Southern Copper Corporation
		(Registrant)
		By:	/s/ Armando Ortega Gómez
			Armando Ortega Gómez
			Vice President, Legal, General Counsel, and  Secretary
Date: November 6, 2007

 

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