UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

~~Current~~CURRENT ~~Report~~REPORT

~~PURSUANT~~Pursuant TOto ~~SECTION~~Section 13 ORor 15(Dd) OFof ~~THE~~the ~~SECURITIES~~Securities ~~EXCHANGE~~Exchange ~~ACT~~Act OFof 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): ~~February~~March 1825, 2026

HECLA MINING ~~COMPANY (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)~~CO/DE/

Delaware	1-8491	77-0664171
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

6500 North Mineral Drive, Suite 200

Delaware	1-8491	77-0664171
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

6500 North Mineral Drive Suite 200
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho		83815-9408
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

~~Coeur~~Registrant’s ~~d'Alene~~Telephone Number, ~~Idaho~~Including ~~83815~~Area Code: (208) 769-~~9408~~4100

(~~Address~~Former ofName ~~principal~~or ~~executive~~Former ~~offices)~~Address, ~~(Zip~~if ~~Code~~Changed Since Last Report)

(208) 769-4100

Registrant's telephone number, including area code

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.25 per share	HL	New York Stock Exchange
Series B Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.25 per share	HL-PB	New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Item 52.0201 –Completion ~~Departure~~ of ~~Directors~~Acquisition or ~~Certain~~Disposition ~~Officers; Election~~ of ~~Directors;~~Assets. ~~Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers~~

~~Mr.~~On ~~Stephen~~March F.25, ~~Ralbovsky~~2026, ~~has retired from the Board of Directors (“Board”) of~~ Hecla Mining Company (“~~Company~~Hecla” or the “~~Hecla~~Company”) ~~effective~~issued ~~February~~a ~~19,~~news ~~2026.~~release At (the ~~time~~“News ofRelease”) ~~his~~announcing ~~retirement,~~the ~~Mr.~~completion ~~Ralbovsky~~of ~~served~~the aspreviously ~~Hecla’s~~announced ~~Chair~~sale of ~~the~~all ~~Audit~~of ~~Committee~~the issued and aoutstanding ~~member~~shares of ~~the~~Hecla ~~Company’s~~Quebec ~~Health,~~Inc. ~~Safety,~~to ~~Environmental~~17629346 ~~and~~Canada ~~Technical~~Inc., ~~Committee~~an ~~and~~affiliate ~~Governance~~of ~~and~~Orezone ~~Social~~Gold ~~Responsibility Committee~~Corporation. ~~Mr.~~The ~~Ralbovsky~~transaction ~~had~~was ~~been~~previously aannounced ~~member~~by of Hecla’s ~~Board~~on ~~since~~January ~~2016.~~26, ~~Mr.~~2026 ~~Ralbovsky~~and ~~did~~disclosed ~~not~~in ~~advise~~a ~~the~~Current ~~Company~~Report ofon ~~any~~Form ~~disagreement~~8-K filed with the ~~Company~~Securities onand ~~any~~Exchange ~~matter~~Commission ~~relating~~on toJanuary ~~its operations~~28, ~~policies~~2026, orwhich ~~practices~~is incorporated herein by reference.

OnItem ~~February 19, 2026, Ms~~8.01 ~~Jill~~Other Satre was appointed as the Chair of the Company’s Audit Committee. She has served on the Audit Committee since her appointment to the Board in October 2024. Ms. Satre currently serves as Vice President Internal Audit & Corporate Compliance at TC Energy Corporation, where she provides strategic direction and oversight of corporate compliance programs, enterprise risk management, internal audit, and internal controls over financial reporting. Prior to joining TC Energy Corporation in March 2023, she was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she worked from 2000 to 2023. She holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation in Alberta, Canada and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant in California, U.S. Ms. Satre also serves on the Company’s Governance and Social Responsibility Committee.Events

~~SIGNATURE~~In the News Release, the Company also announced it had delivered a notice of redemption of the Company’s remaining $263 million 7.25% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “Notes”). The Company will redeem in full the remaining principal amount of the Notes outstanding on or about April 9, 2026 (the “Redemption Date”). The redemption price will be equal to 100.00% of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

Neither this Current Report on Form 8-K nor the News Release constitutes a notice of redemption of the Notes. If you hold Notes, please refer to the notice of redemption for redemption instructions and other information regarding the redemption of the Notes.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit Number		Description
10.1		Share Purchase Agreement (“Agreement”), dated January 26, 2026, among Hecla Mining Company, 17629346 Canada Inc. and Orezone Gold Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2026 (File No. 1-8491)).*
99.1		News Release dated March 25, 2026**
104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).

* The Agreement has been incorporated by reference herein to provide you with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about us. Such information can be found elsewhere in other public filings we have made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available without charge at www.sec.gov. The Agreement contain representations and warranties Hecla and Orezone made. The assertions embodied in Hecla’s representations and warranties are qualified by information in a confidential disclosure letter that we delivered in connection with signing the Agreement. While we do not believe that it contains information securities laws require us to publicly disclose other than information that has already been so disclosed, the disclosure letter does contain information that modifies, qualifies and creates exceptions to the representations and warranties set forth in the Agreement. Accordingly, you should not rely on the representations and warranties as characterizations of the actual state of facts since they are modified in important part by the disclosure letter. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may have changed since the date of the Agreement, which subsequent information many or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures.

** Filed herewith.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

HECLA MINING COMPANY By: /s/ David C. Sienko David C. Sienko Sr. Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

			Hecla Mining Company

Date:	March 25, 2026	By:	/s/ David C. Sienko

~~Dated: February 20, 2026~~ 2

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