UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

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FORM 8-K

Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 1, 2013

HECLA MINING COMPANY
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

6500 North Mineral Drive, Suite 200

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83815-9408

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(208) 769-4100

(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

N/A
(Former name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets

On June 1, 2013, Hecla Mining Company (the “Company” or “Hecla”) and our wholly owned subsidiary, 0963708 B.C. LTD. (“B.C. LTD.”) completed the acquisition of Aurizon Mines Ltd. (“Aurizon”) pursuant to the terms of the March 3, 2013 Arrangement Agreement among the parties (the “Agreement”). Under the terms of the Agreement, Hecla acquired all of the outstanding common shares of Aurizon for CAD$514,513,691.30 and 56,997,790 shares of Hecla common stock.   The Agreement, filed as exhibit 2.1 to our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 4, 2013, is incorporated herein by reference.

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 contains representations and warranties the Company and Aurizon made. The assertions embodied in those representations and warranties are qualified by information in a confidential disclosure letter that the Company has exchanged in connection with signing the Agreement. While the Company does 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 may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures. 

On April 12, 2013, we completed an offering of US $500 million in aggregate principal amount of our Senior Notes due May 1, 2021 (the “Notes”) in a private placement conducted pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.  We used the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes to partially fund the acquisition of Aurizon.  Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. (“Scotia Capital”) was one of the initial purchasers of the Notes.  An affiliate of Scotia Capital, The Bank of Nova Scotia, is a lender to us under our Ninth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated April 1, 2013.  In addition, The Bank of Nova Scotia and certain of its affiliates have periodically provided investment and commercial banking and related services to us, and have also been customers of us in the purchase of metals we produce.

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

As previously disclosed in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 4, 2013, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, part of the purchase price for the outstanding common shares of Aurizon was to be funded by shares of Hecla common stock. At closing, we issued 56,997,790 shares of our common stock to Aurizon shareholders, pursuant to an exemption from registration under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933.

Item 8.01. Other Events

On June 3, 2013, the Company issued a press release announcing the closing of the Aurizon acquisition, effective June 1, 2013. A copy of the news release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1, and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

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*     Filed herewith.

SIGNATURE

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.

Dated: June 3, 2013

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