secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-04-13T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-099815
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hecla Q1 silver production up 10% QoQ to 4.0M oz; gold down 9% to 39,571 oz
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- Silver production 4,041,878 oz (+10% vs Q4 2022); gold 39,571 oz (-9%).
- Greens Creek set quarterly throughput record of 2,591 tpd; silver output 2.8M oz (+14%).
- Lucky Friday produced 1.3M oz silver (+3%); fourth consecutive quarter above 1M oz.
- Casa Berardi gold output 24,686 oz (-20%) due to lower underground tons and grade.
- Keno Hill development 65% complete; on track for Q3 production; sees 2023 silver >2.5M oz.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312523099815/0001193125-23-099815-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312523099815/d494243d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-099815

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