I am sure Elon has been making moves to lock in supplies of silver for all of his silver intensive businesses.  I don’t think he has done enough and there is ONE specific transaction he should be pursuing, in my opinion.  He actually should have done this BEFORE the US made silver a critical mineral, since whatever rules and regulations have been adjusted as a result of that designation might make my proposal more complicated and a lot more expensive.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Musk’s combined various enterprises are probably one of the largest users of silver.  The US government is indirectly the largest user, its military products consume the most silver but are manufactured by numerous companies who buy and use the silver.  Why hasn’t Elon made an “offer they can’t refuse,”  to buy Hecla Mining?  He would secure a large amount of his many enterprises silver needs and could continue to operate and  sell off the gold mined, to pay for the cost of operations.  The silver would basically be free(minus the original purchase price for the company) and he would secure his silver needs for years, as that critical input becomes more scarce and expensive every day.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            As of Friday’s close, Hecla’s market cap was under $14 billion dollars.  So even if you have to pay double, or up to triple that, $28 to $45 billion dollars, is a drop in the bucket, to secure a long term supply of silver and you would be making money on the gold part of the operation and could sell it off to another mining company, eventually.  Time to pull the trigger Elon!