---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-157318"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HL"
cik: "0000719413"
company_name: "HECLA MINING CO/DE/"
filed_at: "2024-06-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T05:44:31.838241+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hecla Mining appoints Catherine J. Boggs as Interim CEO with $106,000 monthly fee

## Summary
- Boggs appointed Interim President & CEO effective May 22, 2024, while search for permanent CEO proceeds.
- Monthly management fee of $106,000, payable 60% in cash and 40% in Hecla common stock.
- Boggs continues as Board Chair; Charles B. Stanley serves as Independent Lead Director.
- Board reclassified Boggs from Class II to Class I director due to a recent board resignation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-157318
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HL
- cik: 0000719413
- company_name: HECLA MINING CO/DE/
- filed_at: 2024-06-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312524157318/0001193125-24-157318-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312524157318/d839588d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-157318
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-157318.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-157318.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Catherine J. Boggs was appointed as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer at HECLA MINING CO/DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: appointed Catherine J. Boggs to serve as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer effective May 22, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000119312524157318/0001193125-24-157318-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.