secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-07-13T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-186245
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hecla Mining Reports Preliminary Q2 2023 Production: Silver Up 13% YTD, Lucky Friday Hits 20-Year High
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- Keno Hill produced 184,264 oz silver in Q2 2023, with June throughput of 330 tpd, ramping toward 440 tpd target.
- Lucky Friday mine achieved highest quarterly silver production since Q1 2000 at 1.29M ounces in Q2 2023.
- Greens Creek produced 2.4M oz silver and 16,351 oz gold in Q2, on track for annual guidance of 9.0-9.5M oz silver.
- Casa Berardi gold production fell 23% quarter-over-quarter due to wildfire-related road closures; guidance suspended.
- Overall year-to-date silver production increased 13% compared to first half 2022, gold decreased 14%.

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