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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-10-12T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-254632
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hecla reports Q3 preliminary silver +8% YTD; Lucky Friday suspended rest of 2023
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- Silver production 11.4M oz YTD (up 8% YoY); gold production 114k oz (down 14% YoY).
- Lucky Friday produced 475k oz Ag in Q3; full-year production suspended due to Aug shaft fire.
- Keno Hill produced 0.71M oz Ag in Q3 (up 285% QoQ); ramping to 440 tpd by year-end.
- Casa Berardi gold output 24,259 oz (up 28% QoQ); open-pit transition on track for mid-2024.
- 2023 silver guidance reaffirmed at 14.5-15.5M oz; targeting ~20M oz by 2025.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312523254632/0001193125-23-254632-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312523254632/d530117d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-254632

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