Company: SCCO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004735
Chunk: 8

Company: SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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Quorum

Our by-laws provide that the presence in person or by proxy of the Common Stockholders of record holding a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote at the meeting shall constitute a quorum for purposes of electing directors and voting on proposals other than the election of directors.

<div align='center'>ELECTION OF DIRECTORS</div>

Nine nominees are proposed for election by you at the Annual Meeting.The nominees to be voted on by you are Messrs. Vicente Ariztegui Andreve, Javier Arrigunaga Gomez del Campo, Enrique Castillo Sánchez Mejorada, Leonardo Contreras Lerdo de Tejada, Oscar González Rocha, Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco, Luis Miguel Palomino Bonilla, Carlos Ruiz Sacristán and Jose Pedro Valenzuela Rionda.All of the nominees are currently serving as directors of the Company.

Our Certificate requires the Board of Directors to include a certain number of special independent directors. A special independent director is a person who (i) satisfies the independence standards of the NYSE (or any other exchange or association on which the Common Stock is listed) and (ii) is nominated by a Special Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors. The Special Nominating Committee, composed of Messrs. Luis Miguel Palomino Bonilla, Carlos Ruiz Sacristán (each a “Special Designee”), and Leonardo Contreras Lerdo de Tejada (the “Board Designee”), has nominated Messrs. Luis Miguel Palomino Bonilla, Enrique Castillo Sánchez Mejorada, and Carlos Ruiz Sacristán as special independent directors. The Board of Directors at its meeting held on January 23, 2025, endorsed the selection of special independent directors made by the Special Nominating Committee, and also selected Messrs. Vicente Ariztegui Andreve, Javier Arrigunaga Gomez del Campo and Jose Pedro Valenzuela Rionda as our fourth, fifth and sixth independent directors. For further information, please see the section on “Special Independent Directors/Special Nominating Committee.”

The Board of Directors considers and recruits candidates from all sources, including nominations recommended by stockholders, to fill the positions on the Board of Directors taking into account the Board of Directors’ current composition and core competencies, and the needs