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Happy Creek Completes Highland Valley Magnetic Survey and Releases Drill Results

Drill Results Exploration Programs

March 22, 2021, Vancouver, British Columbia – Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: HPY) Happy

Creek” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce results of drilling and other exploration work on

the Company’s 100% owned Highland Valley project in the Highland Valley district, B.C.

The Company completed 2,058.5 metres of HQ and NQ diameter drilling in four holes during

November and December 2020. Two holes tested a small part of the new PIM target on the West

Valley property. On the Rateria property, one deeper hole was completed in each of the Zone 1

and Zone 2 copper deposits. Highlight drill intervals are shown in Table 1, below. A property map

is included as Figure 1 and a plan view of drilling for Zones 1 and 2 is included as Figure 2.

In late February of this year, a high-resolution airborne magnetic survey was flown over the

Rateria property. A total of 1,660 kilometres were flown along lines 100 metres apart, with a

nominal sensor height of 45 metres above the ground. Final processing of the new data is

underway, and the preliminary results strongly suggest that the work will yield a much better

understanding of the structural and lithological controls of known mineralization and help define

the geophysical expression of associated alteration. For the first time the Company has covered

the 244-square-kilometre Rateria and West Valley properties with this high resolution and detailed

magnetic survey. This will improve understanding of these parameters in context with Zone 1 and

2 as well as the 25 other known copper pr ospects and areas in between and help identify new

targets for follow-up fieldwork and drill testing.

David Blann, President and CEO of the Company commented: “Although drill assays were not as

strong as expected, three of the four holes did intersect porphyry-style copper-molybdenum

mineralization and at Zone 2, associated values of gold, silver and rhenium. At Zone 1 and 2 the

deep tests do not affect the near-surface resource potential for these zones. The detailed

geological data collected and recently completed geophysical survey results will be leveraged

with the Company’s approximately $1.4m in cash to continue the search for another giant deposit

in the Highland Valley camp.”

Details of 2020 Drilling

A single deep hole was drilled as an undercut beneath previous holes at each of the Zone 1 and

2 copper deposits, intersecting weaker mineralization than the holes nearby. Both Zone 1 and 2

have been partially defined with 28,000 metres of drilling to date and contain multiple previously

reported significant intercepts, defining mineralization for greater than one kilometre in length and

350 metres in depth. The two, first-ever holes at PIM on the West Valley property confirm the

surface interpretation for the presence of a c opper-molybdenum porphyry mineral system that is

wide-open.

The next step is to review the results in context with other technical information including the new

magnetic survey. The Company’s lead consultants, C.J. Greig & Associates are working on a

comprehensive, in-depth review of the 244-square-kilometre project with the goal of providing

recommendations for the 25 known copper showings and prospects, generating new targets

beneath the extensive glacial till cover and testing extensions to the existing two deposits.

Table 1. 2020 Drill Results, Highland Valley Project.

Zone Hole # From

(m) To (m) Interval

(m)

(%)

(ppm)

Rateria Zone 1 R20-01 296.0 328.5 32.5 0.10 0.6

Rateria Zone 1 R20-01 570.5 588.5 18.0 0.24 8 2.1

Rateria Zone 1 Includes 320.0 328.5 8.5 0.31 10 1.8

Rateria Zone 2 R20-02 125.0 130.0 5.0 0.29 33 1.7 0.05 0.12

Rateria Zone 2 R20-02 182.5 187.5 5.0 0.13 0.7 0.03

Rateria Zone 2 R20-02 212.3 216.6 4.3 0.18 0.9 0.02

Rateria Zone 2 R20-02 244.0 251.5 7.5 0.10 0.4 0.03

Rateria Zone 2 R20-02 276.5 355.5 79.0 0.09 14 0.5 0.03

Rateria Zone 2 Includes 311.5 320.3 8.8 0.41 9 2.1 0.13

Rateria Zone 2 R20-02 387.5 398.5 11.0 0.21 24 1.2 0.08 0.24

West Valley

PIM WV20-02 153.0 154.5 1.5 0.13 0.7

Vest Valley

PIM WV20-02 245.0 252.5 7.5 222 0.1 0.10

Discussion of Results

At Zone 2 on the Rateria property, drill hole R20-02 returned multiple mineralized intervals

including 79.0 metres of 0.09% copper, including 8.8 metres of 0.41% copper and 0.13 ppm gold

within variably potassic- and sericite-altered Chataway phase granodiorite and felsic dikes. Hole

R20-02 was designed to test 100 metres beneath R17-05, which intersected 105.5 m of 0.37%

copper and 0.14 ppm gold. While metal values continue to depth, the higher-grade mineralization

above may have a plunge to the north of R20-02.

At Zone 1, drill hole R20-01 returned 32.5 m of 0.10% copper and 18.0 metres of 0.24% copper.

Hole R20-01 tested approximately 100 metres beneath R11-01 which intersected 95.0 m grading

0.67% copper, 3.6 ppm silver. While mineralization persists to depth, hole R20-01 cut almost

continuous evidence of faulting and abundant felsic dikes that may have displaced or disrupted

the higher-grade zone that occurs above it in this section of Zone 1.

At the previously undrilled PIM target on the West Valley property, two holes partially tested a 1.6

kilometre ring-shaped induced polarization (IP) chargeability anomaly with coincident anomalous

copper in soils and rock at surface. Hole WV20-01 was spotted on a logging road at the southern

end of the PIM IP anomaly and was drilled westerly to test a relatively high 8-10 millisecond

chargeability portion of the target. This hole intersected short, localized zones of sericite alteration

with trace pyrite mineralization hosted by Skeena and Bethsaida phases of the Guichon Creek

batholith.

Hole WV20-2 is located 400 metres north of WV20-01 and on the inner edge of the ring-shaped

IP anomaly. This drill hole was oriented to the northwest and intersected wider zones of fracturing

and chlorite-sericite alteration in Skeena and Bethsaida phases and cut geochemically anomalous

copper and molybdenum values such as 1.5 metres of 0.126% copper and 7.5 metres of 222 ppm

molybdenum. Hole WV20-02 suggests improving conditions for copper mineralization northward

in the PIM area. The majority of this large-scale target is untested by drilling.

About the Highland Valley Project (West Valley-Rateria Property)

The 100-percent-owned Highland Valley project, comprising the West Valley and Rateria copper

properties, covers 244 square kilometres and is a quality, underexplored exploration asset in the

world-class Highland Valley district. The Company's property package adjoins the Highland Valley

Copper (HVC) mine on its southern side. The mine, Canada’s largest copper producer, has been

in production for nearly 60 years. Happy Creek’s Zone 1 and Zone 2 discoveries, which lie just

6.5 kilometres southeast of HVC’s Highmont pits, show laterally continuous mineralization that

has been partially outlined with 28,000 metres of drilling. The Zone 1 and Zone 2 discoveries

remain open in several directions. The Company also continues to generate new copper targets

within this large and highly prospective property.

More information on the Highland Valley project and the Company’s other projects can be found

on the Company’s website www.happycreekminerals.com.

The Company operates with the principles and guidelines set out for Covid-19 that are established

by provincial health and safety authorities to protect workers and the communities in which the

Company operates.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

David Blann, P.Eng.

President and Chief Executive Officer

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

David Blann, President and Chief Executive Officer

Office: Phone: (604) 662-8310

Email: [email protected]

Walter Segsworth, Executive Chair

Email: [email protected]

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is def ined in the policies of the

TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Drill core samples were shipped to ALS Global Laboratorie s in North Vancouver, B.C. for preparation and analyses

using method ME-OG62 (4 acid digest and ICP), ME-MS-61 (4 acid digest, ICP-MS finish), Au ICP-21 (Au 30-gram fire

assay, ICP-AES finish. The Company inserted blank, duplicate and three certified different standards into the sample

chain for every tenth core sample submitted as part of its QA/QC and no issues are noted.

David Blann, P.Eng. is a Q ualified 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. The reader is cautioned that results

or information from an adjacent property does not infer or in dicate similar results or information will or does occur on

the subject property. Historical information from the subj ect or adjacent property cannot not be relied upon as the

Company’s QP, a term which was created and defined under NI-43-101 has not prepared nor verified the historical

information.

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.

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

“foresee”, "plan", "planned", "continue", "expect", “thought to”, "project", "predict", "potential", "tar geting", "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 miner alized zone, potential expansion of

mineralization, potential type(s) of mini ng, 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 conditi ons, access, political stab ility, 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. Assumpti ons may be based on factors and events that are not within

the control of Happy Creek a nd 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 informati on. Additional information on risks and uncertainties can be

found within Financial Statem ents, Prospectus and other materials f ound on the Company’s SEDAR profile at

www.sedar.com. Although Happy Creek has attempted to identify im portant factors that coul d 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. H appy 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.

Figure 1. Highland Valley Project Map.

Figure 2. Drill Plan for Zones 1 and 2, Rateria Property, Highland Valley Project.

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