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November 19, 2010 � Vancouver, British Columbia � Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: HPY, the �Company�) is pleased to announce final results from drill hole R10-18 and results from recent surface exploration conducted on its Rateria property, Highland Valley, B.C.

The Company has a 100% interest in approximately 145 square kilometres of mineral claims that adjoin Teck�s Highland Valley Copper (HVC) mine, Canada�s largest copper producer, located in south central British Columbia. HVC is currently mining material averaging 0.26% copper from three open pits. Happy Creek�s Zone 1 is located approximately 6.5 kilometres southeast of Teck�s Highmont mine. Approximately 7 to15 metres of glacial till overlies the bedrock in this area.

Final results from R10-18 are 248.1 metres of 0.19% copper from surface, including 27.5 metres of 0.68% copper and 4.8 g/t (grams per tonne) silver.

Zone 1 Drill Hole R10-18 Final Results

Hole

Depth

From

To

Interval

Copper

(metres)

(metres)

(metres)

(metres)

%

R10-18

273.71

9.5

257.5

248.1

0.19

includes

72.5

192.5

120.0

0.26

includes

162.5

190.0

27.5

0.68

To date, drilling in Zone 1 has intersected copper mineralization in an area approximately 700 metres by 100 metres in dimension and to a depth of 300 metres. The Company has completed seven additional drill holes on the property and results are pending.

David Blann, President and CEO of the Company states �Zone 1 contains copper mineralization from surface and drilling continues to intersect grades that are positive at depth and remain open in extent. We have also drilled approximately 400 to 500 metres further south of Zone 1 and intersected copper mineralization that clearly expands the potential for this area. Drilling started in April, and will soon be finished for the year. The progress this year has been very positive. Our experience with the exploration success in finding two new copper zones and the on-going surface work indicate there is excellent potential to develop several copper deposits and for more discoveries here�.

The Company has also received positive results from additional prospecting and stream sediment sampling in areas of the property that remain untested by drilling.

Approximately 500 metres northeast of the Company�s 2010 drilling in Zone 2, four outcrop grab samples in an area of approximately 200 by 300 metres in dimension have returned 0.05%, 0.08%, 0.41%, and 3.21% copper. These samples are from mineralized structures believed to originate and form part of Zone 2. Drilling in Zone 2 has intersected positive copper and molybdenum and locally rhenium, gold and silver values in an area approximately one kilometre by 600 metres in dimension. (Refer to News Release dated September 8, 2010).

Approximately 1.5 kilometres to the southwest of Zone 1, samples of quartz vein material have returned values of 3.34%, 1.74% and 1.04% copper and up to 0.021% molybdenum, and 5.78 g/t silver. Eight stream sediment samples in this area have confirmed previous positive results of 887 ppm (parts per million) to 1625 ppm copper and expanded the area of interest. New sampling has returned 190 ppm to 776 ppm copper including 414ppm and 592 ppm copper and 1.74 to 29.4 ppm molybdenum from several stream tributaries. This area is underlain by favorable Bethsaida phase intrusive rock and an induced polarization geophysical anomaly approximately 800 by 600 metres in dimension that is thought to represent a very prospective untested target.

In the southern portion of the Rateria property, the Sho claim covers an area approximately two by three kilometers in dimension and is within an important regional magnetic low believed to map out the younger and more productive phases of the Guichon batholith. This prospective area also occurs near the intersection of the east-west trending Skuhun Creek and north-south trending �Corridor� fault. The regional magnetic and structural setting is similar to that occurring near the major mines in production to the north. The Company has not conducted a significant amount of work in this area to date.

The main Sho prospect is part of a larger mineralized structure that has been previously trenched by the Company. Here, systematic chip sampling covering approximately 15 metres by 4 metres in dimension averaged 1.49% copper and 8.4 g/t silver. In 2010, the Company continued prospecting approximately 400 metres to the south of the trench. Rock sampling has outlined a northwest trending mineralized zone for over 250 metres in length and 50 to100 metres in width that remains open in length and width. Twelve grab samples of mineralization within this zone returned from 0.20 to 2.84% copper and up to 12.8 g/t silver. Seven samples contain from 0.05 to 0.11 g/t gold. Seventeen (17) widely spaced stream sediment samples on this claim have returned values from 33.7 to 427 ppm copper, with nine sample greater than 250 ppm copper and four samples greater than 400 ppm copper. One silt sample located 200 metres downstream of the Sho trench returned 33,900 ppm (3.4%) copper, 68.9 ppm molybdenum and 4.09 g/t silver. Historical silt sampling results include values of 452ppm, 496ppm, 524ppm, 575ppm and 951ppm copper. Together, these stream sediment and rock sample results are thought to be very positive for porphyry copper exploration, and this large area has not had systematic modern induced polarization (IP) geophysical surveys completed. The Company is very encouraged with the results from this under explored portion of the Rateria property and further exploration is planned.

To date, the Company has discovered two significant new copper zones and continues to identify several new, large scale targets within a mining district that has generated Canada�s largest copper producer for over 25 years.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

�David E Blann�
____________________
David E Blann, P.Eng.
President

David 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. Preliminary analyses are performed by Agat Laboratories of Ontario using a geochemical aqua regia digest and ICP-MS finish, with final results determined by four acid digestion and ICP-MS finish. Results for copper and molybdenum are provided in PPM (parts per million or grams per tonne), with values converted to percent by dividing by 10,000. N/A= Not Available. Quality control protocol includes on-site pick up of samples by the laboratory, routine insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates in addition to the laboratory internal controls.

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