Happy Creek Minerals CEO Jason Bahnsen joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce the commencement of a large-scale diamond drilling campaign at the company’s 100%-owned Fox Tungsten Project, located in the South Cariboo district of British Columbia. This new 2025/2026 exploration program marks an important step toward growing the project’s already impressive high-grade resource base and advancing it toward development as a key supplier of critical minerals in North America. Bahnsen explained that the company has planned up to 100 diamond drill holes totaling approximately 10,000 metres as part of this resource expansion initiative. The campaign will target several newly identified zones that were outlined through geological mapping, prospecting, and follow-up work from earlier drill programs. By systematically testing these zones, the company aims to significantly increase the size and confidence level of the existing NI 43-101 resource estimate. The Fox Tungsten Project is considered one of the highest-grade tungsten deposits globally, positioning it as a strategic domestic source of this critical metal, which is essential for applications ranging from defense systems to renewable energy and advanced manufacturing. Happy Creek’s most recent NI 43-101 estimate from 2018 outlined 582,400 tonnes at 0.83% tungsten trioxide (WO₃) in the Indicated category and 565,400 tonnes at 1.23% WO₃ in the Inferred category. Bahnsen noted that expanding the resource will strengthen the project’s potential to play a key role in supplying secure, local tungsten to the North American critical metals market, reducing reliance on foreign supply chains. #proactiveinvestors #happycreekmineralsltd #tsxv #hpy #Tungsten #HappyCreekMinerals #FoxProject #CriticalMinerals #ResourceExpansion #DrillingUpdate #MiningNews #CanadianMining #StrategicMetals #DefenseMetals