Hecla Mining Company

The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 170.65 points, or 1.6%, for the week ended June 15, to close at 10,594.99.Gold companies held steady while the metal briefly sunk below US$260 per oz. It finis…

Hecla Mining (HL-N) has begun its second drill program on the Sunset gold property owned by Cimarron Minerals (CIU-V) in Mineral Cty., Nev.Hecla, which is earning a 65% interest in the property, compl…

Not every successful Nevada gold mine is a big, high-tonnage open pit. The Rosebud mine near Winnemucca, a joint venture of Hecla Mining (HL-N) and Newmont Mining (NEM-N), is seeing increased producti…

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Hecla Mining (HL-N) has signed a purchase agreement to acquire all the assets of Monarch Resources (MRE-T) for US$25 million.The deal would see Hecla assume ownership of Monarch’s La Camorra gold mine…

In the report period ended April 13, the Dow Jones industrial average finally closed above the 10,000 mark, finishing the week at 10,395.01, up 433.52 points, or 4.3%.Strength in the gold and copper m…

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Hecla Mining (HL-N) has signed a letter-of-agreement to pay US$15 million in cash and US$13 million in shares for the La Camorra gold mine in southeastern Venezuela and all remaining assets held by Mo…

The precious and base metals markets were relatively quiet during the holiday-shortened March 31-April 6 report period, with the biggest change seen in gold prices, which rose 45 cents to US$280.25 pe…

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 236.71 points, or 2.4%, during the report period ended March 16, briefly touching 10,000, before closing at 9930.47 points.However, it was bad news for miners …

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Hecla Mining (HL-N) will put down 20 reverse-circulation holes in a 4,000-metre program aimed at testing three targets on the Cacique gold property in north-central Chile.The largest of these targets …