Southern Copper's 3rd-Quarter Net $344.2 Million Vs $217.9
Million      LIMA, Peru--Southern Copper Corp. (SCCO, SCCO.VL)
said Friday that it had third-quarter net income of $344.2
million compared with net income of $217.9 million in the same
quarter a year earlier, in part as costs declined.      The
company's third-quarter sales declined to $1.38 billion from
$1.55 billion in the same quarter last year.      Total copper
production was 160,602 tons in the third quarter compared with
166,762 tons in the same quarter a year earlier.        Write to
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