Company: SCCO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004735
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Company: SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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olache”), respectively, which is reflected in the Summary Compensation Table under the All Other Compensation column. The Company has a 44.2% participation in Coimolache. Mexican Compensation Practices: Our Mexican compensation practices also take into account many factors, including individual performance and responsibilities, years of service, elements of compensation mandated by Mexican law, future challenges and objectives, contributions to the future success of our Company, the executive total compensation, and our financial performance. We may also look at the compensation levels of comparable companies, as described above. Our Named Executive Officer in Mexico, Mr. Jorge Lazalde receives cash-based compensation, which is currently paid. The cash-based compensation has two principal components: base salary and bonus, which are discretionary, and compensation mandated by Mexican law. We also sponsor programs to recruit and retain qualified employees working in Mexico. Additionally, Grupo Mexico offers certain key employees, including our Named Executive Officers, eligibility under stock purchase plans. See the description of these plans under “Stock Purchase Plans of Grupo Mexico” below.

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The payment of bonuses to our Named Executive Officers is discretionary and we do not necessarily pay bonuses every year. The payment of bonuses and the amount of the same depend on numerous factors, including, among others, our financial performance, our intensive capital investment plan, our future cash flow generation from operations, and our liquidity in general.

We do not provide compensation tied to specific pre-determined individual or Company performance criteria or long-term incentive compensation. The cash incentive payments granted to our Named Executive Officers are not based on pre-established performance targets or targets that have been previously communicated to the executives. The granting of the award and the amount of each award are discretionary and substantially uncertain until we decide to award them.

All our Mexican employee compensation is denominated in Mexican Pesos. We convert the Mexican Pesos into U.S. dollars using the average exchange rate for the applicable period.

Stock Options:

We have not granted stock options or other equity incentive awards to any of our Named Executive Officers in Mexico since 2000. The Stock Incentive Plan, under which options and stock awards could have been granted, expired by its terms on January 1, 2006.

Stock Purchase Plans of Grupo Mexico:

Grupo Mexico offers certain eligible key employees, including our Named Executive Officers, the Employee Stock Purchase Plan through a trust that acquires shares of Grupo Mexico for future sales to our employees, and employees of our subsidiaries and certain affiliated companies. Sales are at the approximate fair market value on the date of grant. Every two