Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call February 15, 2024 10:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Phillips Baker - President, Chief Executive Officer
Russell Lawlar - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Carlos Aguiar - Vice President of Operations
Anvita Patil - Vice President, Investor Relations, Treasurer
Conference Call Participants
Nick Giles - B. Riley Securities
Joseph Reagor - ROTH MKM
Don DeMarco - National Bank Financial
John Tumazos - John Tumazos Very Independent Research
Operator
Good morning. My name is Jeannie and I will be your conference operator today. I would like to welcome you to the Q4 2023 Hecla Mining Company Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Thank you.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Anvita Patil. You may begin your conference.
Anvita Patil
Good morning, Jeannie, and thank you all for joining us for Hecla’s Fourth Quarter 2023 Financial and Operations Results Conference call. I'm Anvita Patil, Hecla’s Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer.
Our financial results news release that was issued yesterday, along with today's presentation are available on Hecla’s website. On today's call we have Phil Baker, Hecla’s President and Chief Executive Officer; Russell Lawlar, Hecla’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Carlos Aguiar, Hecla’s Vice President of Operations.
Phil and Russell will make most of the presentation. Carlos, who's at Keno Hill, will make a couple of comments. All of them will be available to answer questions.
Any forward-looking statements made today by the management team comes under the private securities litigation reform act and involve risks, as shown on slide two, in earnings release and in our 10-K and 10-Q filings with the SEC. These and other risks could cause results to differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
Non-GAAP measures cited in this call and related slides are reconciled in the slides or the news release. I want to remind you, if you would like to have a call with the management, you can do so by using the link under the section, virtual investor event, in earnings release that was issued yesterday.
I will now pass the call to Phil.
Phillips Baker
Thanks, Anvita. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining our call. I'm going to start on slide three. 2023 was a year that was marked by wins and faced with challenges. Some of the challenges were expected, some not. So let me first start with the successes we achieved.