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Note 6. Business Segments (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2012			2011
Net sales to unaffiliated customers:
Greens Creek	$	90,900		$	101,802
Lucky Friday	253			34,562
	$	91,153		$	136,364
Income (loss) from operations:
Greens Creek	$	47,382		$	58,509
Lucky Friday	(5,943		)	19,912
Other	(16,003		)	(9,686		)
	$	25,436		$	68,735

Identifiable Assets By Reportable Segment

	March 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Identifiable assets:
Greens Creek	$	735,983	$	729,289
Lucky Friday	217,267		213,285
Other	444,483		453,516
	$	1,397,733	$	1,396,090

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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