Toquepala: a copper operation in Peru

Toquepala is an open-pit mine producing copper in Tacna region, Peru, operated by Southern Copper. The sources report 248.4 kt copper (224.9 kt in concentrate + 23.5 kt SX-EW cathode) for CY2025; the basis is the whole operation. In copper content, whole-operation output for CY2025 is about 248,400 tonnes (derived here, not printed by the source): about 1.1% of world copper output in 2025 and about 9.2% of Peru's; it is one of 11 operations on this site whose output can be stated in copper content.

Who owns and operates it?

Owners of Toquepala
Owner	Interest	As of
Southern Copper (operator) Held through the SPCC Peru Branch, which is not a separate corporation (10-K p.3-4)	100%	31 December 2025

Interests are as stated in the sources below on the date shown. Ownership changes with deals, so a stake may have changed since the date shown.

How much does it produce?

Reported output of Toquepala
Period	Output	Basis	Where in the source
CY2025	248.4 kt copper (224.9 kt in concentrate + 23.5 kt SX-EW cathode) 224.9 kt in concentrate plus 23.5 kt of SX-EW cathode	Whole operation	Toquepala production table, p.49 · Southern Copper Corporation
CY2024	249.3 kt copper (225.2 kt in concentrate + 24.1 kt SX-EW cathode)	Whole operation	Toquepala production table, p.49 · Southern Copper Corporation

How the copper-content figure is worked out. Southern Copper reports 224.9 thousand tonnes of copper in concentrate and 23.5 thousand tonnes of SX-EW cathode, which sum to 248.4 thousand tonnes. World mine production of copper in 2025 was 23,000,000 tonnes (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026); Peru produced 2,700,000 tonnes.

Status: operating, as of February 2026.

How does it compare?

Other copper operations on this site: Escondida, Cerro Verde, Antamina, Morenci, Grasberg, Kamoa-Kakula, Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), Oyu Tolgoi, Las Bambas, Buenavista del Cobre. In Peru: Cerro Verde, Antamina, Las Bambas. See where copper comes from for the country totals, the country page for Peru, and Southern Copper for its other operations here.

Sources

Southern Copper Corporation: Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 (annual report (SEC 10-K), CY2025 (with 2024, 2023)). Opened 3 November 2026; used: pp.3-4 (ownership, Minera Mexico 99.998%, Grupo Mexico 88.9%); p.45 (Cuajone); p.49 (Toquepala); p.64 (Buenavista); listing.
U.S. Geological Survey: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Copper (government statistical summary, 2025 (world and country mine production)). Opened 3 November 2026; used: world and country mine production table.

Method and limits

Reported, not estimated. Output is the figure the operator or owner published, in the unit it used. This site does not estimate output where none is published.
Shares. A share divides output in copper content by the USGS world or country total for 2025. Where the operator's year is a fiscal year or the unit is a concentrate or a carbonate equivalent, the share is approximate or not given.
Whole operation or owner's share. The basis column says which. A joint venture's output is never counted twice.
Partial list. Only operations with a published figure are listed, so the rank is among those on this site, not among every copper mine. Shares of a country's output mix periods and bases, so treat them as indicative.
Made with AI assistance, checked against sources. The facts were gathered from the documents above by AI-assisted research and re-checked against those documents by a second, independent pass; the page text is generated from the data. No professional review took place. How the site is made. To report an error, contact us; fixes are logged on the corrections page.