GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE MEETING
Notice and Access
This
year we are furnishing our Proxy Materials to our shareholders primarily via Notice and Access delivery pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. On April 5, 2021, we mailed to our shareholders (other
than those who previously requested a printed set) a Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials (the Notice) containing instructions on how to access the Proxy Materials via the Internet. Utilizing this method of
proxy delivery expedites receipt of Proxy Materials by our shareholders, reduces the cost of producing and mailing the full set of Proxy Materials and helps us contribute to sustainable practices.
If you receive a Notice by mail, you will not receive a printed copy of the Proxy Materials in the mail. Instead, the Notice instructs you on how to access the Proxy
Materials and vote over the Internet. If you received a Notice by mail and would like to receive paper copies of our Proxy Materials in the mail, you may follow the instructions in the Notice for making this request. The Notice also contains
instructions on how you may request to receive an electronic copy of our Proxy Materials by email.
Our Proxy Materials can be viewed online on our website at
www.hecla-mining.com by selecting Investors and then Annual Meeting, or under our profile on the SEC EDGAR website at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Record Date, Shares Outstanding and Quorum
If you were a holder of Hecla common stock either as a shareholder of record or as the beneficial owner of shares held in street
name as of the Record Date, you may vote your shares at the Annual Meeting by following the instructions on page 15 under Methods of Voting. As of the Record Date, 535,333,953 shares of common stock were outstanding and entitled to vote at
the Annual Meeting. Shares of our common stock that are held by us in our treasury are not counted as shares outstanding and will not be voted. Each shareholder has one vote for each share of common stock held as of the Record Date.
A quorum must be present in order for business to be conducted at the Annual Meeting. A quorum consists of the presence at the Annual Meeting, in person or represented
by proxy, of a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock as of the Record Date. Shares represented by proxies marked Abstain and broker non-votes are counted in determining
whether a quorum is present for the transaction of business at the Annual Meeting.
Instructions for the Virtual
Annual Meeting
For health and safety reasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year our Annual Meeting will be a
completely virtual meeting. There will be no physical meeting location. The meeting will only be conducted via live webcast. We may return to an in-person Annual Meeting in 2022, but have not yet reached a final determination.
To participate in the virtual meeting, visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HL2021 and enter the 16-digit control number
included on your Notice of the Proxy Materials, on your proxy card, or on the instructions that accompanied your Proxy Materials. You may log into the meeting platform beginning at 9:45 a.m. PDT on May 19, 2021. The meeting will begin promptly
at 10:00 a.m. PDT on May 19, 2021.
The virtual meeting platform is fully supported across browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) and
devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, and cell phones) running the most updated version of applicable software and plugins. Participants should ensure that they have a strong Internet connection wherever they intend to participate in the meeting.
Participants should also give themselves plenty of time to log in and ensure that they can hear streaming audio prior to the start of the meeting.
If you wish to
submit a question, you may do so in two ways. If you want to ask a question before the meeting, then beginning at 8:30 a.m. PDT on May 17, 2021 and until 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 18, 2021, you may log into www.proxyvote.com and enter your 16-digit control number. Once past the login screen, click on Question for Management, type in your question, and click Submit. Alternatively, if you want to submit your question during the
meeting, log into the virtual meeting platform at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HL2021, type your question into the Ask a Question field, and click Submit.
Questions pertinent to meeting matters will be answered during the meeting, subject to time constraints. Questions regarding personal matters, including those related
to other matters that are not pertinent to the
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