October 24, 2016 / TheNewswire / Vancouver, British Columbia. Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: HPY) (the "Company") is happy to announce additional results from the 2016 exploration program on its 100% owned Fox tungsten property, located northeast of 100 Mile House, in south central British Columbia, Canada.
A program of geology, trenching and approximately 2,330.6 metres of NQ diameter core drilling in 28 holes were completed at the Ridley Creek, BK, BN and South Grid zones. Interim results reported here are from 19 holes, with additional results from these and other holes pending. A map showing the location of the various mineralized zones can be found on the Company's website at www.happycreekminerals.com.
BN prospect
Drill hole F16-17returned 4.1metres of 5.1% WO3 and is located approximately 50 metres south of 2012 drill hole F12-27 which contains 14.8m of 4.0% W03. F16-18 is about 50 metres south of F16-17, and returned 3.03 m of 1.07 % WO3 and ended within the mineralized zone due to a drill problem. Approximately 45 metres further south, F16-19 returned 6.0 metres of 0.56% WO3, including 2.8 metres of 0.81% WO3. Drilling at the BN prospect has started to outline a new high grade mineralized zone that is open in extent to the south and north. To date, drilling has tested an area approximately 150 m by 100 m in dimension within a target area that is 1.5 km by 1.0 km in dimension. For comparison, the Cantung mine located in the Northwest Territories, Canada, is regarded as among the largest and highest-grade tungsten mines in the western world with reserves and resources grading approximately 0.80 to 0.97% WO3 (1).
David Blann, P.Eng., President and CEO of Happy Creek stated: "With 4.1 metres of 5.1% tungsten trioxide, the Fox has delivered another world class tungsten result. The fact it is about 50 metres away from an interval with 14.8 metres of 4.0% tungsten trioxide suggests continuity of this high grade layer. The BN zone clearly adds important value to the project and we have just begun to test this large scale target. The work completed at all three zones continue to demonstrate the quality of this rare tungsten discovery."
Ridley Creek (RC) prospect
The Ridley Creek (RC) zone open pit resource is currently 505,000 tonnes at 0.468%WO3 indicated, and 280,000 tonnes of 0.456% WO3 inferred. Refer to the press release dated March 15th 2016. Ten holes completed at the Ridley Creek zone in 2016 were designed to expand the existing resource area outward. Drill hole F16-03 is located at the north edge of the Ridley Creek deposit and cut 8.45 metres of 1.14% WO3, including 1.95 metres of 1.11% WO3 and 3.4 metres of 2.19% WO3. Intervals are near true thickness and results suggest potential to increase grade for this area compared with the block model.
F16-05 is located approximately 70 metres southwest of F16-03 and cut 4.1 metres of 1.0% WO3 and suggests potential to increase the resource grade in this area. Other holes completed are located beyond the main resource area and showed lower grade or narrower intervals that are being evaluated or additional analyses performed. F16-09 returned 3.0 metres of 0.52% WO3 that is 70 metres southwest of any previous drilling and is approximately 800 metres from the BN zone. Input from BGC Engineering Inc. and AGP Mining consultants are planned to evaluate the strip-ratio and geological interpretation towards a revision of the existing open-pit resource.
BK prospect
In 2016, three hand trenches located up-slope from previous trenches returned 3.4 metres of 3.42% WO3, 3.0 metres of 0.97% WO3 and 6.0 metres of 0.66% WO3, respectively. The zones remain open in width up-slope due to deeper soil and talus.
Drill hole F16-12 is located approximately 20 metres southwest of the trenches and cut 2.2 metres of 0.66% WO3. Drill holes F16-14 and 15 are located approximately 20 metres west of the trenches and cut 5.2 metres of 0.70% WO3 and 6.0 metres of 0.67% WO3, respectively. F16-11,13 and 16 intersected lower grade or narrow intervals of moderate grade and further geological interpretation of this zone is on-going.
Highlights of Drill and Trench Results
| Drill | From | Width | W03 | Zinc | Indium | Gold | |
| Zone | Hole | metres | metres | % | ppm | ppm | ppb |
| RC | F16-03 | 20.05 | 8.45 | 1.14 | 1058 | 0.6 | 35 |
| RC | F16-05 | 28.00 | 4.10 | 1.00 | 4309 | 1.9 | 23 |
| BK | F16-14 | 20.80 | 5.20 | 0.70 | 1334 | 0.8 | 46 |
| BK | F16-15 | 10.00 | 6.00 | 0.67 | 867 | 0.5 | 11 |
| BN | F16-17 | 70.80 | 4.10 | 5.10 | 10466 | 3.9 | 97 |
| BN | F16-18 -end in mineralized zone | 56.10 | 3.03 | 1.07 | 5900 | 2.0 | 16 |
| BN | F16-19 | 34.00 | 6.00 | 0.56 | 1296 | 0.5 | 5 |
| Trench | |||||||
| BK | BK-T-1a | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.97 | 3200 | 1.7 | 59 |
| BK | BK-T-2a | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.66 | 547 | 0.6 | 23 |
| BK | BK-T-3a | 0.0 | 3.4 | 3.42 | 13704 | 5.9 | 80 |
A final summary and results including additional drill holes from the BN (6) and South Grid (2) as well as other work completed, is pending.
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