Southern Peru Copper Corp (SPCC) was the Peruvian miner least affected by the Covid-19 pandemic among public companies on the Santiago Stock Exchange, several notifications filed to the country's securities authority, SMV, showed.
The SMV polled all listed companies during July and only SPCC said that it did not partially or completely halt operations due to the national emergency declared by the federal government in Peru. Large producers including Las Bambas and Antamina are not public and were not a part of this survey.Lower mining supply from South America, one of the...