RE:A little help please mattbingham:Baker has stated the company's commitment to expansion and Hecla mgmt. obviously coveted the experience, opinions and insights of Mr. Board when he served Hecla for seven years but then quit / 'retired' to run his own mine engineering consulting company: Mr. Board has been President of M Board Mining Consulting, LLC since 2020. Prior to that, he served as Vice President Innovation and Technical Services for Hecla Limited, a subsidiary of Hecla Mining Company, from June 2014 until his retirement in June 2020. Prior to that, he acted as a consulting engineer for Itasca Consulting Group where he provided mine evaluation, mine design and stability assessments for underground and open pit mines worldwide. Mr. Broad has over 45 years of experience as a mining and geotechnical engineer and holds a PhD in Geological Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Tie his appointment in with the stated corporate vision of Hecla from it's Pres./CEO Baker one month ago: "We ultimately want to become an SnP 500 company." "We are clearly a company that would benefit from acquisitions that would allow us to grow dramatically. We produced 20 million oz of silver and we would like to see that double. We ultimately want to become an SnP 500 company. We need more silver production and higher prices and I think we are going to see both of those." " Of the primary silver producers we are the third largest. We're the ones that are the most acquisitive although we are probably the ones with the least need for acquisitions. We're in very good shape to take action should the other company want to do something."