Hecla Mining (HL) Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Data

At the Annual Meeting, our shareholders were asked to consider and vote upon the following three proposals: (1) election of two nominees to our Board to hold office until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified; (2) ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment of BDO USA, LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the calendar year 2022; and (3) approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers.

On the record date of March 28, 2022, there were 538,906,433 shares of Hecla common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. The count of shares present at the meeting, in person or by proxy, was 385,304,451 or 71.49% of the outstanding shares of common stock of Hecla. For each proposal, the results of shareholder voting were as follows:

Proposal 1. Election of Two Director Nominees. The shareholders elected each of the director nominees proposed by our Board to serve until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until such nominee’s successor is duly elected and qualified. The following is a breakdown of the voting results:


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Proposal 2. Ratification of the Appointment of BDO USA, LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Our shareholders ratified the appointment of BDO USA, LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022. The following is a breakdown of the voting results:


There were no broker non-votes with respect to Proposal 2.

Proposal 3. Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation. Our shareholders approved the compensation of Hecla’s named executive officers. The following is a breakdown of the voting results: