secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-08-21T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-216859
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Lucky Friday mine fire to impact production, cost guidance; plan pending
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- Fall of ground in #2 shaft caused by a contained fire; no personnel in mine at time.
- Incident ~500 ft from bottom of active shaft; MSHA notified.
- Production and cost guidance expected to be impacted; 2023 guidance to be updated after recovery plan.
- Company working on plan to resume production; full inspection not yet completed.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312523216859/0001193125-23-216859-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312523216859/d495070d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-216859

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