Fox tungsten property October 2 4 , 201 7 –
Happy Creek
drills 5 metres of 2.98% W03 at
the
Fox tungsten
property
October
2
4
,
201
7
–
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:
HPY)
(the “Company
”
)
is
pleased
to
announce
results from drilling at the BN zone on
its
100% owned
Fox tungsten
property
,
located
90 km
northeast of
the town of
100 Mile
House,
in south central
B.C., Canada.
During 2017, drilling was performed on the BN,
Ridley Creek and Nightcrawler
-
South Grid zones.
Preliminary results for the BN zone are reported
here
for
4,446.3 metres of drilling in 38
holes.
Final results
for the project,
including
the Ridley Creek and South Grid zones
and
zinc, indium, bismuth, gold and silver values will be released after all results
have been
received.
The BN zone consists of
U
pper,
Middle and L
ow
er tabular
-
shaped layer
s
of
calc
silicate (
skarn
)
that are
cut by
varying thicknesses of
monzogranite,
alaskite
to aplite
intrusive rocks
.
O
n January 26, 2017 the Company announced
as part of the total project
resource,
a
first
-
time
inferred resource
for the BN zone
of
254,000 tonnes grading 1.892%
WO
3
(tungsten trioxide)
.
New d
rilling
results
for tungsten (WO
3
-
tungsten trioxide)
are
referenced
relative to
the
nearest previous drill hole
intercept within
the current resource
.
True widths are estimated
to be 75
-
95% of reported drill intervals.
Highlights
F17
-
25: 6.8 metres of 0.435% WO
3 starting at 37.6 metres that expands the Middle layer
approximately 50 metres to the southeast.
F17
-
29: 5.05 metres of 2.980% WO
3
starting at 45.6 metres
that expands the
Middle
layer
approximately 75 metres to the east.
F17
-
33: 2.0 metres of 0.578% WO
3 starting at 19.5 metres that expands the
Middle layer
approximately 200 metres to the northeast
.
F17
-
36: 7.81 metres of 1.36% WO
3 starting at 55 metres
th
at expands the Middle layer
approximately
4
0 metres to the southwest
.
F17
-
23
:
4.0 metres of 0.963% WO
3
starting at 162 metres
that expands the Lower laye
r
approximately 35 metres south of drill hole F12
-
27 whic
h contains 5.8 metres of 2.0%
WO
3
and 7.8 met
res of 1.77% WO3
in the Lower layer
.
David Blann, President and C.E.O. of Happy Creek states: “
T
his year
, drilling
at the BN
zone
has
expand
ed
the mineralized
area
by about four times
.
T
he Fox
has again
returned
globally top
-
tier
tungsten grades such as drill hole
F17
-
29 with five metres of 2.98% WO3
,
that
is
more than
75 metres
to the
east of F12
-
27 contain
ing
14.8 metres of 4.0% W
O
3
in
the Middle layer
.
We have also
intercepted
the
Lower
layer
with
F17
-
23
containing
4.0
metres of 0.963%
WO
3,
which
should
allow
this
layer
to be
included in a
resource
estimate.
Reconnaissance drilling further west has confirmed th
at a
one
-
kilometre
long
tungsten in soil anomaly is underlain by mineralized calc silicate layers at and near
-
surface and provides potential to expand resources in this direction.
While the BN deposit
still
remains open to further expansion, we expect
the new results to
make
a substantia
l
contribution
for
the Fox Project in
an updated resource estimate.
Since the previous
resource estimate,
the
tungsten price ha
s
increased
44%
,
which
will have
a beneficial
effect on
lowering
the
economic
cutoff grade
”
.
Details
Drill holes F17
-
01, F17
-
02 and
F17
-
05 expanded
the mineralized zone approximately
5
0
metres
to the north
.
F17
-
06 to F17
-
12
and F17
-
38
expanded the deposit approximately
100 metres to the south
where it appears
to be
cut
by monzogranite.
Drill holes
F17
-
14
to F17
-
22 are
generally
widely
space
d reconnaissance
holes
up
to
approximately
400
metres
west and
southwest
of the current
resource
and in an area underlai
n by positiv
e
tungsten in soil. C
alc silicate
and skarn
was intersected in
these drill
holes at and near
surface
and
returned
trace to
low grade tungsten values
.
The
se
reconnaissance
holes
confirm the
tungsten in soil anomaly
is underlain by mineralized calc silicate
that occurs
above
a
monzogranite
sill,
and
provides
opportunity to expand the BN zone
for
over one
kilometre
west
and
southwest.
Drill holes F17
-
13 and
F17
-
23 to F17
-
3
5 expanded the
Middle layer
over
100 metres to the east and
2
00 metres
to the
north
east a
nd it remains
open
.
In this area
,
t
he Middle
calc silicate/
skarn layer daylights to surface
in a north
-
south
trend
and the mineralized zones
are
closer to surface
.
Geol
ogical mapping has confirmed
this
calc silicate unit continues 800 metres to the north
and
connect
s with the Ridley Creek
deposit
.
Drill holes F17
-
36
and F17
-
37
expanded the
Middle layer of the
BN depos
it
approximately 60 metres southwest
where it remains open beneath a
monzogranite
sill.
The Middle layer of the BN zone is currently the best defined and contains the current
resource that is
approximately
20 to 80 metres below
surface.
Overall, the
dril
l
-
defined
BN zone is now approximately 300 metres by 350 metres in dimension
and locally ten
metres from surface
.
2017 BN Zone Drilling Summary
2017
From
To
Interval
WO3
Drill hole
Metres
Metres
Metres
%
F17
-
01
77.0
83.0
6.0
0.378
F17
-
02
116.0
118.0
2.0
0.712
F17
-
03
85.0
87.5
2.5
0.124
F17
-
03
94.0
96.2
2.2
0.100
F17
-
04
190.0
191.0
1.0
0.272
F17
-
05
59.7
61.8
2.0
0.383
F17
-
05
84.0
85.0
1.0
0.849
F17
-
07
38.0
46.0
8.0
0.214
F17
-
09
24.0
29.7
5.7
0.163
F17
-
13
50.0
54.2
4.2
0.238
F17
-
23
162.0
174.0
12.0
0.470
Includes
168.0
172.0
4.0
0.960
F17
-
24
91.8
93.5
1.7
0.161
F17
-
25
37.6
44.4
6.8
0.435
Includes
42.5
44.4
1.9
1.028
F17
-
26
9.0
9.7
0.7
0.216
F17
-
26
11.5
12.8
1.3
0.139
F17
-
27
21.0
27.0
6.0
0.083
F17
-
29
30.9
33.1
2.2
0.820
F17
-
29
44.8
49.8
5.1
2.980
F17
-
30
44.5
45.5
1.0
0.460
F17
-
31
32.0
33.0
1.0
0.309
F17
-
32
20.4
21.5
1.1
0.648
F17
-
33
19.5
21.5
2.0
0.578
F17
-
36
55.0
62.8
7.8
1.361
F17
-
37
54.02
54.75
0.70
0.619
F17
-
38
52.55
53.64
1.09
0.122
The BN tungsten deposit is part of the Fox mineral system that is 10 km by 3 km
containing six
mineralized
zones. Drill results for the Ridley Creek and Nigh
tcrawler
-
South
Grid are pending.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
“David E Blann”
_________
___________
David E Blann, P.Eng.
President, CEO
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
David Blann, President, CEO
Corporate Office:
Phone: 604.662.8310
Email:
Website:
www.happycreekminerals.com
Corporate Communications
Ron Birch: Phone: 250.545.
0383
Toll Free: 1.800.910.
7711
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
news
release
.
Da
vid Blann,
P.Eng. 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.
S
amples are derived from ½ core cut by rock saw and shipped to, prepared and analyzed at SGS Laborato
ries in
Burnaby, British Columbia.
SGS Burnaby is
ISO 9001:2008
certified.
Drill core samples
of all calc silicate
are
digested and analyzed by aqua regia and ICP
-
MS
and if greater than 40 ppm W (tungsten) they are re
-
analyzed by
peroxide fusion and ICP
-
AE
S for percent tungsten (W), respectively. Over limit samples greater than 4% W are
analyzed for tungsten by XRF. W is multiplied by 1.261 to obtain WO3 (tungsten trioxide) the compound for which
tungsten prices are quoted. The Company routinely inserts bla
nks, certified standards and duplicate samples within
the submitted drill core batches submitted for assay as part of its quality control procedures.
This press release contains "forward
-
looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities la
ws, including
statements that address capital costs, recovery, grade, and timing of work or plans at the Company’s mineral
projects. Forward
-
looking information may be, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek",
"anticipate", "plan", "p
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"believe", “opportunity”, “further” and others, or which describes a goal or action, event or result such as "may",
"should", "could", "would", "might"
or "will" be undertaken, occur or achieved. Statements also include those that
address future mineral production, reserve potential, potential size or scale of a mineralized zone, potential expansion
of mineralization, potential type(s) of mining, potentia
l grades as well as to Happy creek’s ability to fund ongoing
expenditure, or assumptions about future metal or mineral prices, currency exchange rates, metallurgical recoveries
and grades, favourable operating conditions, access, political stability, obtai
ning or renewal of existing or required
mineral titles, licenses and permits, labour stability, market conditions, availability of equipment, accuracy of any
mineral resources, anticipated costs and expenditures. Assumptions may be based on factors and eve
nts that are not
within the control of Happy creek and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct. Such forward
-
looking
information involves known and unknown risks, which may cause the actual results to materially differ, and/or any
future result
s expressed or implied by such forward
-
looking information. Additional information on risks and
uncertainties can be found within Financial Statements, Prospectus and other materials found on the Company’s
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ek has attempted to identify important factors that could cause
actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward
-
looking information, there can be
no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate as actual
results and future events could differ materially
from those anticipated in such statements. Happy creek withholds any obligation to update or revise any forward
-
looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unles
s required by law.