[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5188-5189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         CELEBRATING 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF HECLA MINING COMPANY

  (Mr. LABRADOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LABRADOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 125th 
anniversary of the Hecla Mining Company.
  Hecla was founded in 1891 to acquire and trade mining claims in north 
Idaho's Silver Valley. Over the years, this mining district has 
produced 1.2 billion ounces of silver. The company has survived and 
thrived through world wars

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and economic depressions, and today Hecla is the Nation's largest 
primary producer of silver and employs over 1,300 people in my district 
and throughout the world.
  I recently had the opportunity to visit Hecla's Lucky Friday mine and 
was able to see firsthand the state-of-the-art mining practices that 
Hecla uses to extract silver from deep in the Earth.
  As Hecla celebrates its 125th anniversary, I join with others in 
celebrating the company's great legacy and success.

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