From Mineweb.com: Hecla Mining President and CEO Phil Baker insisted that long-term fundamentals for silver have never been better. Despite the financial loss, Hecla reported its second largest quarterly silver production for the past 20 years, as well as its highest-ever zinc production.

“While there is a great deal of short-term uncertainty about the prices of the metals we produce, I believe in the long-term the fundamentals have never been better,” Baker advised….. Full Article: Source