In which country is there a volcano called Hecla?
HMS Hecla (1815) HMS Hecla (1815) HMS "Hecla" was a Royal Navy "Hecla"-class bomb vessel launched in 1815. Like many other bomb vessels, she was named for a volcano, in this case Hekla in Iceland. She served at the Bombardment of Algiers. Subsequently she took part in three expeditions to the Arctic. She then served as a survey vessel on the coast of West Africa until she was sold in 1831. She became a merchantman and in 1834 a Greenland whaler. She was wrecked in 1840. Commander William Popham commissioned "Hecla" for service in the Mediterranean. "Hecla" saw wartime service as part of
Hecla Mining basis for future cooperation between Hecla and the governments in the Coeur d’Alene Basin." In January 2017 Hecla Mining reported full year 2016 production totaling 17.2 million ounces of silver and 233,929 ounces of gold. Hecla Mining Hecla Mining is a silver and other precious metals mining company based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Founded in 1891, Hecla Mining was prominent in what became known as the Silver Valley (Idaho), which had the second-largest deposits of silver in the country. In 1983 this area was designated as a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency, because of land, water and air