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Happy Creek Announces Appointment of Director

Management Changes

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Happy Creek Announces Appointment of Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, August 29, 2025 – HAPPY CREEK MINERALS Ltd (TSX-V:

HPY, OTC: HPYCF, FSE: 1HC) (“Happy Creek” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce

the appointment of Mr. Grant McAdam as a Director, effective immediately.

Happy Creek, President and CEO, Jason Bahnsen commented “ Mr. McAdam is an investment

analyst at Waratah Capital Advisors and brings many years of institutional investment, capital

markets and mining experience to the board. With two funds controlled by Waratah owning almost

20% of the Company, we are delighted to welcome Mr. McAdam to the board.”

Mr. McAdam has been an investment analyst at Waratah Capital Advisors since 2019. He has

also served as a director of Grid Metals Corp. since September 2023. Mr. McAdam focuses on

metals and mining, as well as real estate, business and information services and special

situations. He holds the Certified Financial Analyst designation and has received an Honours

Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

“Jason Bahnsen”

President and Chief Executive Officer

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Jason Bahnsen

Email: [email protected]

About Happy Creek Minerals Ltd.

Happy Creek is focused on making new discoveries and building resources in proximity to

infrastructure on the Company’s 100-percent-owned portfolio of diversified metals projects in

British Columbia.

Projects include the high-grade Fox Tungsten deposit, the Silverboss molybdenum-copper-gold-

silver project adjacent to Glencore’s closed Boss Mountain molybdenum mine and the Hen-Art-

DL gold and silver project.

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On November 7, 2024, Happy Creek announced the closing of the sale of the Highland Valley

Copper Project to Metal Energy Corp. (TSX:V MERG) (“Metal Energy”). Happy Creek holds 9.9%

of Metal Energy issued capital and up to a 2.5% Net Smelter Return royalty on the Highland Valley

mineral claims.

Happy Creek is committed to responsible mineral resource development. The Company’s priority

is to build and sustain mutually beneficial relationships with Indigenous Communities in the

territories in which the Company explores.

Additional information relating to Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. may be obtained or viewed on the

SEDAR+ website at www.sedarplus.ca or on the Company’s website at

www.happycreekminerals.com.

Forward Looking Statement

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 release.

This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws,

including statements that address capital costs, recovery, grade, and timing of work or plans at the

Company’s mineral projects and statements relating to the use of proceeds and completion of the Offering.

Forward-looking information may be, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek",

"anticipate", “foresee”, "plan", "planned", "continue", "expect", “thought to”, "project", "predict", "potential",

"targeting", "intends", "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, potential

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, obtaining 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 events 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 results expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Additional information

on risks and uncertainties can be found within Financial Statements and other materials found on the

Company’s SEDAR+ profile at www.sedarplus.ca. Although Happy Creek 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, unless required by law.