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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-25-003591
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hecla reports 240M oz silver reserves, second highest in 134-year history; Keno Hill up 17%
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- Silver proven & probable reserves of 240M oz, second highest ever, up 1% YoY.
- 2024 silver production of 18.7M oz; reserves replaced 14.6M oz through exploration.
- Keno Hill reserves grew 17% to 64M silver oz; Greens Creek nearly replaced production.
- Gold reserves flat at 2.2M oz; Casa Berardi added 21K oz gold reserve.
- Conservative pricing: $22/oz silver, $1,900/oz gold used for reserve estimates.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774925003591/0001437749-25-003591-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774925003591/hl20250212_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-003591

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