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

Item 5.02Departure, Election, or Appointment of Directors or
Officers

Dr. Anthony P. Taylor has reached the mandatory retirement age
under the Companys Bylaws and Corporate Governance Guidelines and
was not eligible to stand for re-election at the Annual Meeting.
Dr. Taylor also served as a member and as Chairman of the
Companys Corporate Governance and Directors Nominating Committee,
and was a member of the Health, Safety, Environmental and
Technical Committee, and Compensation Committee. Dr. Taylor had
been a member of the Companys Board since 2002.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security
Holders

At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Hecla Mining Company
(our, we, or Hecla) held on May 25, 2017, our shareholders were
asked to consider and vote upon the following eight proposals:
(1) election of two nominees to our Board of Directors to hold
office until the 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until
their successors are duly elected and qualified; (2)ratification
of the Audit Committees appointment of BDO USA, LLP as our
independent registered public accounting firm for the calendar
year 2017; (3) approval, on an advisory basis, of the
compensation of our named executive officers; (4) approval, on an
advisory basis, of the frequency of the vote on executive
compensation; (5) approval of amended and restated Hecla Mining
Company Stock Plan for Nonemployee Directors; (6) amendment to
our Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of
authorized shares from 500,000,000 to 750,000,000; (7) amendment
to our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws to remove certain
80% supermajority voting provisions; and (8) amendments to our
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws to permit shareholders to
call special meetings of shareholders under certain
circumstances.

On the record date of March 27, 2017, there were 395,826,290
shares of Hecla common stock issued and outstanding and entitled
to vote at the Annual Meeting. The count of shares present at the
meeting, in person or proxy, was 317,337,927, or 80.17% of the
outstanding shares of common stock of Hecla. For each proposal,
the results of shareholder voting were as follows:

Proposal 1.Election of Two Director Nominees. The
shareholders elected each of the director nominees proposed by
our Board of Directors to serve until the 2020 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders or until such nominees successor is duly elected and
qualified. The following is a breakdown of the voting results:

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 -0.05 at 5.69 with 5,877,313 shares trading hands.