Hecla Mining
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Hecla Mining Company is a gold, silver, and other precious metals mining company based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Founded in 1891, it is the largest silver mining company in the United States and the 9t
Group of Miners, Just up from Underground
Hecla's Lucky Friday mine office
Silver Valley (Idaho)
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The Silver Valley is a region in the northwest United States, in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains in northern Idaho. It is noted for its mining heritage, dating back to the 1880s.
Hecla Mining
…is the largest silver mining company in the United States and the 9th biggest mining company in the United States overall. This area is known as the Silver Valley (Idaho). In 1983, this entire area was designated as a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency, because of land, water, and air contamination…
Upper Silver Valley at Mullan in 1909
Pyromorphite specimen from the Bunker Hill Mine
Miners going to work in 1909, Silver Valley
Bunker Hill smelter in operation during the 1970s