HECLA MINING COMPANY (NYSE:HL) Files An 8-K Results of Operations and Financial Condition

Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On April 20, 2017, Hecla Mining Company (the Company) issued a
news release announcing preliminary production and financial
results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.All measures
of the Company’s first quarter 2017 operating and financial
results and conditions contained in the news release are
preliminary and reflect the Companys expected results as of the
date of the news release. Actual reported first quarter 2017
results are subject to management’s final review as well as
review by the Company’s independent registered accounting firm
and may vary significantly from current expectations because of a
number of factors, including, without limitation, additional or
revised information and changes in accounting standards or
policies or in how those standards are applied. A copy of the
news release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report
and is incorporated herein by reference.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the
information in this Item 2.02, including Exhibit 99.1, is being
furnished and shall not be deemed to be filed for purposes of
Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the Exchange Act), or otherwise subject to the liability of that
section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any of
the Companys filings or other document filed under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be
expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

About HECLA MINING COMPANY (NYSE:HL)

Hecla Mining Company is engaged in discovering, acquiring, developing and producing silver, gold, lead and zinc. The Company and its subsidiaries provide precious and base metals to the United States and around the world. The Company produces lead, zinc and bulk concentrates, which it markets to custom smelters and brokers, and unrefined bullion bars (dore) containing gold and silver at Greens Creek and Casa Berardi. The Company’s segments include the Greens Creek, Lucky Friday, Casa Berardi units and San Sebastian. It is focused on its San Sebastian project; North Idaho’s Silver Valley; Greens Creek unit on Alaska’s Admiralty Island; the silver-producing district near Durango; the Abitibi region of north-western Quebec, and the Creede district of Southwestern Colorado. The concentrates produced at its Greens Creek and Lucky Friday units contain payable silver, zinc and lead, and the concentrates produced at Greens Creek contain payable gold.

HECLA MINING COMPANY (NYSE:HL) Recent Trading Information

HECLA MINING COMPANY (NYSE:HL) closed its last trading session down -0.31 at 5.52 with 11,625,212 shares trading hands.