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Note 6 - Business Segments (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

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

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013			2012
Net sales to unaffiliated customers:
Greens Creek	$	72,649		$	90,900
Lucky Friday		3,801			253
	$	76,450		$	91,153
Income (loss) from operations:
Greens Creek	$	27,189		$	47,382
Lucky Friday		(3,847	)		(5,943	)
Other		(25,555	)		(16,003	)
	$	(2,213	)	$	25,436

Identifiable Assets By Reportable Segment Table [Text Block]

	March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012
Identifiable assets:
Greens Creek	$	746,417	$	741,666
Lucky Friday		221,316		226,196
Other		412,379		410,428
	$	1,380,112	$	1,378,290

- 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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