Chris Neville has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Hecla Mining’s Lucky Friday mine. With 30 years of mining experience, Chris has risen through the Hecla ranks having started with the company in 1992 as a student engineer trainee at the Lucky Friday mine. He has spent the majority of his career at Hecla and has held a variety of positions at Lucky Friday, Greens Creek, and Hecla’s corporate office in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.