Hecla Mining Company’s stock price tumbled this morning after the Coeur d’Alene-based company announced Tuesday evening a year-long closure at its Lucky Friday Mine in North Idaho for removal of built-up material in the silver shaft. Hecla’s stock, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, lost a quarter of its value in morning trading today. It was trading around $4.40 a share at 8 a.m. Pacific, down $1.44 from the close Tuesday. That’s the lowest it has been since mid-2010. Federal mine inspectors, who are investigating accidents at the Mullan, Idaho, mine, closed down Lucky Friday’s main shaft last week as a result of hazards associated with loose rock. The vertical shaft is the underground silver mine’s main entrance and exit, and hauls both workers and materials/Spokesman-Review. More here.

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An unidentified man wears only a tie and socks as he participates in a performance art piece outside the New York Stock Exchange this morning in New York. For the five-minute piece, dozens of volunteers disrobed and acted out the motions of people at work. Police say they arrested two naked men and one topless woman for disorderly conduct. You write the cutline. Story here. (AP Photo/newcriteria.wordpress.com, Anthony Miler)

Top Cutlines:

• 1. (tie, with each earning $10 Fort Ground Grill gift certificate): William Falkingham was visited again by Idaho Falls police who advised that he should add birthday suits to the list of outfits he should avoid — Christa Hazel, and: An unidentifed man protests his ouster from the White House Grill. “I am NOT wearing a tank top and Raci still kicked me out,” he fumed — CindyH.
• 2. Out of work and having to give up his government-issued PC, former Rep. Weiner resorts to the only way he has left to display his shortcomings — JohnA.
• 3. The last man left in the middle class holds on to all he has left after Wall Street has finished investing his hard earned money — Phaedrus.
• HM: Chinese Ninja, Nic, & everyone else. Terrific contest