secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HECLA MINING CO/DE/ (HL)
CIK:        0000719413
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-26-004900
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hecla Mining director Ralbovsky retires; Jill Satre named Audit Committee Chair
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- Stephen Ralbovsky retired from Hecla Board effective Feb 19, 2026; had been director since 2016 and served as Audit Committee Chair.
- Jill Satre appointed as new Audit Committee Chair effective Feb 19, 2026; she joined the Board in October 2024.
- Satre is VP Internal Audit & Corporate Compliance at TC Energy; previously a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2000 to 2023.
- No disagreement between Ralbovsky and Hecla regarding operations, policies, or practices was reported.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774926004900/0001437749-26-004900-index.htm
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-004900

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