HECLA MINING COMPANY (NASDAQ:HL) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of
Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory
Arrangements of Certain Officers

The Board of Directors (Board) of Hecla Mining Company (the
Company) determined to increase the size of the Board, and
appointed Catherine Cassie Boggs as a Class II director (standing
for election in 2018), to fill the resulting vacancy. Ms. Boggs
was also appointed to serve on the Audit and Corporate Governance
and Directors Nominating Committees. She will be eligible to
receive standard director and committee fees, and to receive
grants under the Companys Stock Plan for Nonemployee Directors
and the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan, all as described under the
caption Compensation of Non-Management Directors in the Companys
proxy statement for its 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders,
which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
April 4, 2016.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Boggs and
any other person to which she was appointed to the Board, and
there are no relationships between Ms. Boggs and the Company that
would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K of
the Exchange Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Ms. Boggs has been the Vice President and General Counsel of
Resource Capital Funds (USA) (a private equity firm), since
January 2011. Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President
Corporate Development for Barrick Gold Corporation from 2005 to
2010, where she also served as President and CEO of a joint
venture company mining copper and gold in Pakistan (Tethyan
Copper). She was President of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law
Foundation from 2012 to 2013, and has previously served as a
member of the Mining Committee of the International Bar
Association.

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or
Bylaws

On December 4, 2016, the Board of the Company, acting upon the
recommendation of the Companys Corporate Governance and Directors
Nominating Committee, amended Article III, Section 4 of the
Companys Bylaws to change the mandatory retirement age for
non-employee directors from 72 to 75, effective immediately. A
copy of the Companys Bylaws, as amended, is attached hereto as
Exhibit 3.2 and incorporated by reference into this Item 5.03.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

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