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Hecla Mining Company is a provider of precious and base metals to the United States economy and worldwide. The Company acquires, develops, produces, and markets silver, gold, lead and zinc. Hecla Mining Company produces both metal concentrates, which it sells to custom smelters, and unrefined gold bullion bars (dore), which may be sold as dore or further refined before sale to precious metals traders. The Company is organized and managed into four segments represent its operating units and significant exploration interests: The Lucky Friday unit; The Greens Creek unit; The La Camorra unit and various exploration activities in Venezuela, and The San Sebastian unit and various exploration activities in Mexico. Hecla Mining Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Rio Grande Silver Inc., acquired the right to earn into a 70% joint venture interest in an approximately 25-square-mile consolidated land package in the Creede Mining District of Colorado.