secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-24-022513
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hecla Q2 preliminary silver production up 6% QoQ; Keno Hill output jumps 39%
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- Silver production 4.5M oz in Q2, up 6% from Q1; YTD silver up 10% vs 2023.
- Lucky Friday record throughput 1,181 tpd; silver output up 23% QoQ. Insurance proceeds $17.8M in Q2.
- Keno Hill produced 900,440 oz silver, up 39% QoQ, mill throughput 406 tpd (47% improvement).
- Greens Creek silver fell 9% QoQ to 2.2M oz; Casa Berardi gold up 5% to 23,187 oz.
- On track for ~17M oz silver in 2024, nearly 20% growth from 2023.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774924022513/0001437749-24-022513-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774924022513/hl20240710_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-022513

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