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Happy Creek Minerals Ltd
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Happy Creek to build road access to Fox

2018-09-25 11:11 ET - News Release

Mr. David Blann reports

HAPPY CREEK PROVIDES AN UPDATE ON THE FOX, HEN AND RATERIA PROPERTIES

Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. has provided an update on its 100-per-cent-owned Rateria copper, Fox tungsten and Hen gold properties in British Columbia, Canada.

The Rateria copper property -- Highland Valley district

The company's zone 1 and 2 both have drilled dimensions of approximately one kilometre in length, 50 to 150 metres in width and over 350 metres in depth and remain open, with drill grades comparable with that currently being mined in the district. In early September, a historical access trail dating from the mid-1950s near the Sho prospect was cleared and evaluated. The host rock consists of Bethlehem and Chataway phases of the batholith cut by northwest- and north-trending mineralized shear, fault and fracture zones. Mineralized zones are exposed in five places within an area approximately 20 to 40 metres in width and 200 metres in length and open. Malachite and azurite copper oxide minerals with sulphides (predominantly bornite) occur within quartz-k-feldspar-muscovite-sericite veins and fracture fillings from 0.15 to 0.5 metre in width, and alteration extends into wall rocks for up to a few metres where dominantly chlorite-epidote and locally tourmaline are noted. The generally narrow mineralized structures appear to increase in size and become brecciated where northwest and north-south structures intersect. Grab samples collected of the mineralized material range from 0.06 per cent copper up to 3.59 per cent copper, 287 parts per billion (ppb) gold and 11.9 grams per tonne (g/t) silver. The average of the 19 selected mineralized samples collected from all five exposures is 1.68 per cent copper. On Sept. 22, geological mapping on trend about 600 metres to the southeast of this area located an outcrop containing a one- to three-metre-wide series of bornite-rich copper veins and crosscutting veinlets that are not recorded in any historical information. This new prospect is thought to be part of the mineralized structures farther to the northwest, which together is at least 800 metres of strike length. Based on geophysical surveys, this area is in proximity to a wide, mostly covered first order northwest-trending structure that cuts the batholith through the Sho, Moss 4, zone 1 and South Yubet prospects, a distance of at least seven km. The recent work completed around the Sho prospect contributes to the continuing geological vectoring toward new large-scale porphyry copper targets in a district hosting Canada's largest porphyry copper mine.

Fox tungsten property

The Fox is located 75 km northeast of 100 Mile House, B.C. In late July, geological mapping was completed for three days at several tungsten-bearing calc-silicate layers that occur stratigraphically above that hosting the current resource of 582,400 tonnes (indicated) grading 0.826 per cent tungsten trioxide and 565,000 tonnes (inferred) grading 1.231 per cent WO3. Previous mapping in 2017 had located the presence of the two layers immediately above the Ridley Creek deposit but there was uncertainty as to their continuity. In 2018, the two layers were relocated and a third found, and all three were traced continuously along strike in a north-south direction for more than 500 metres and connected to earlier mapping. Abundant subparallel intrusive sills of monzogranite-alaskite composition also occur and that is encouraging for the development of tungsten skarns. Each of the calc-silicate layers is between three and eight metres in thickness, although they can reach up to 20 metres in thickness locally. An ultraviolet (UV) lamp survey indicated the presence of scheelite (tungsten mineral) and locally sphalerite (zinc sulphide) and molybdenite (molybdenum sulphide) occurs. Sixteen rock samples collected at widely separated locations returned from trace to 0.35 per cent WO3.

Interpretation from this work combined with previous mapping confirms that the upper calc-silicate layers are continuous for approximately two kilometres along strike which is the same as the lower calc-silicate layer that contains the resources. The outcrops of the upper layers are also about 500 metres west of the Ridley Creek zone and provide more confidence that the lower, resource-bearing layer continues that far to the west. Previous drilling of two drill holes that were directed beneath Deception Mountain returned intervals of 19.4 m of 0.93 per cent WO3 and 26 m of 1.19 per cent WO3 that are therefore potentially open to the northwest for at least 500 metres. These upper layers have never been drilled and will be incorporated in future drilling plans that test the western extent of the Ridley Creek, BN and BK zones beneath Deception Mountain.

By Aug. 15, a state of emergency was declared in B.C. due to forest fires and helicopters were not available for the company to conduct further surface exploration during the normal working season. The company has engaged C-3 Consulting to assist with the permitting steps to construct road access into the resource area which will aid in advancing this project toward development.

The Hen property

The Hen property is located approximately two kilometres west of the Fox property. Prospecting along a recently constructed logging road has resulted in the discovery of a new mineralized showing. The first and only grab sample collected from a recent roadcut returned 7.6 g/t gold, 2.08 per cent lead, 4.02 per cent zinc and 0.16 per cent copper. The host rock is a sulphide-rich volcanic sediment near the base of the Nicola group basalt conglomerate and top of the Lemieux Creek formation. This style of mineralization has not been seen before on the property. In addition, two rock samples collected northeast of the Ledge prospect returned 2.13 g/t gold and 0.55 g/t gold. Further prospecting is continuing.

More detail on the Fox tungsten, Hen gold and Rateria copper properties can be found on the company's website. The company is continuing to conduct low-cost, road-accessible geological and various exploration work.

David Blann, PEng, director, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the preparation and approval of the technical information disclosed in the news release. Analyses are performed by SGS Laboratories in Burnaby, B.C., using a geochemical aqua regia digest of a 2.0-gram pulp and ICP-MS finish, and results for copper, silver and molybdenum are provided in ppm (parts per million (ppm) or grams per tonne, and gold in parts per billion (ppb)). Samples greater than 5,000 ppm copper, lead or zinc are rerun utilizing ICP-AES providing values in per cent and over 500 ppb gold are redone using 30-gram fire assay with ICP-MS finish. Tungsten analyses are performed using a peroxide fusion digestion and G0_XRF-76V, and values of W are converted to W03 by multiplying by 1.261.

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