Hecla shares are up 20c to $5.35 and option volume is running 4.5x the daily average driven by activity in the December $5 call. The contract has seen multiple 3,000-4,000 blocks trade totaling 24,000 contracts now, of what appears to be fresh buying between 72c to 83c. 97% of the volume has been on the asking price. Shares of the Idaho-based mining company, which focuses on silver, gold and zinc, have added 10% in the past three days and have now moved above its 50-day moving average. This may be a play that the shares of miners, which have relatively underperformed the rise in price of the underlying metals, will begin to catch up.