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Gold/Mining/Energy : Silver prices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Joe who wrote (5115)	5/16/2002 8:35:38 AM
From: D.Austin	Respond to of 8010

Helllloo Joe they are very involved with silver,they started with silver,silver is still their main revenue source. 1891 - On October 14, 1891, Hecla Mining Company was incorporated in the state of Idaho. Founders, Amasa Campbell, Patsy Clark and John Finch, started a century of mining by Hecla. During its history, Hecla has been a leading domestic producer of silver and lead, and more recently, a major supplier of gold and industrial minerals. * Established in 1891 in northern Idaho's Silver Valley, Hecla Mining Company's rich history of mining has distinguished it as a respected precious metals producer. Now headquartered in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, this international, publicly traded company is 111 years old. Hecla Mining Company mines and processes silver, gold, lead and zinc in the United States, Mexico and Venezuela. Hecla currently produces silver from three silver mines, Greens Creek, San Sebastian and Lucky Friday, as well as mining gold at the La Camorra mine. The company's gold and silver operations are low cost, with total cash costs during 2001 at $133 per ounce of gold and $3.52 per ounce of silver. The Greens Creek Unit, in which Hecla holds a 29.73% interest, is on Admiralty Island near Juneau, Alaska, and produced over 3 million ounces of silver for Hecla's account in 2001. Hecla's share of Greens Creek includes over 37.6 million ounces of silver in proven and probable reserves. The San Sebastian mine, an underground mine and exploration project, is located in central Mexico's historically silver-rich Durango district. It produced over 950,000 ounces of silver and nearly 16,000 ounces of gold in 2001, after only six months of operation. San Sebastian has 8.6 million ounces of proven and probable silver reserves and more than 91,000 ounces of proven and probable gold reserves. The Lucky Friday Unit, located in Mullan, Idaho, produced over 3.2 million ounces of silver in 2001 and has over 17 million ounces of silver in proven and probable reserves. Hecla's gold operation, the La Camorra Unit, is located in El Callao, Venezuela. The mine produced over 152,000 ounces of gold in 2001 and has nearly 700,000 ounces of proven and probable gold reserves and other resources. Hecla is well known in the United States as a major primary silver producer, and the name "Hecla" is commonly associated with silver by many investors. Over the past two decades, Hecla has also produced a significant amount of gold. * * * also---http://www.silverinstitute.org/members.html