{"id":1158487,"date":"2020-01-07T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1010599"},"modified":"2020-01-07T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T13:27:40","slug":"hecla-mining-reports-highest-ever-gold-production-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1158487","title":{"rendered":"Hecla Mining reports highest-ever gold production in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American silver producer Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL) <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.hecla-mining.com\/file\/Index?KeyFile=402087468\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">said on Tuesday<\/a> that gold production last year reached 272,873 ounces, an increase of 4% from 2018 and the highest in the company\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Coeur d&#8217;Alene, Idaho-based<br \/>\nminer also generated 12.6 million ounces of silver last year, or of 22% more<br \/>\nthan in 2018, attributing most of the gains to its Greens Creek mine in southeast<br \/>\nAlaska.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, one of the world\u2019s largest<br \/>\nand lowest-cost primary silver mines, churned out 9.9 million ounces of silver \u2014<br \/>\nthe highest total since Hecla acquired full ownership in 2008 \u2014 and 56,624 ounces<br \/>\nof gold in 2019. From the total, 2.7 million ounces of silver and 15,356 ounces<br \/>\nof gold were produced in the last three months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Hecla Mining also announced that unionized workers at its Lucky Friday mine, in northern Idaho, have ratified a collective bargaining agreement reached in December. The move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/hecla-mining-ramps-up-lucky-friday-mine-to-full-production-amid-strike\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ends a 34-month strike<\/a>, the longest in the Silver Valley region.<\/p>\n<p>The deep underground silver, lead,<br \/>\nand zinc mine, located in the Coeur d\u2019Alene Mining District of northern Idaho,<br \/>\nhas been in operations since 1942.<\/p>\n<p>The company reported at the end of<br \/>\n2018 that the strike had cost the company $14.6 million. That year, Lucky<br \/>\nFriday&nbsp;produced 169,041 ounces of silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Output of the precious metal surged 4%, while  silver production jumped 22%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[949,369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158539,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158487\/revisions\/1158539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}