Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released the plan for the first phase of exploration at the Company’s 100% owned White Star Tungsten Project, a past-producing tungsten-molybdenum skarn property in Elko County, Nevada, USA. The acquisition of the property remains subject to final approval from the Canadian Securities Exchange (the “CSE”).
The project is located approximately nine miles by road southwest of Jarbidge, in the Charleston Mining District, adjacent to the Company’s Rowland Tungsten Project. This proximity provides strategic advantages, including shared road access and consolidated logistics, enabling the Company to advance both projects under a single district-scale exploration program.
The 2026 work program is designed to deliver the geophysical and geochemical datasets required to define and rank drill targets across the property. Key highlights include a property-wide high-resolution UAV magnetometer survey and a property-wide soil geochemistry campaign. These surveys aim to map the signature of the past-producing Mission Cross Mine, which recorded historical tungsten production of approximately 1,000 tons of ore assaying up to 1.0% WO(3) (USGS Bulletin 105).
Blake Morgan, CEO and President of Western Star, stated, “White Star Property surrounds a documented past producer in a tungsten district that has never been evaluated using modern geophysics or systematic geochemistry. Our plan is straightforward: fly the property with a high-resolution drone magnetic survey and use soil geochemistry to define the true scale of the tungsten system at the property.”
The White Star Project is hosted within a contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum skarn system, the same deposit style that hosts mineralization at the Rowland Project. Regional geology consists of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks intruded by a Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock, with scheelite, powellite, and molybdenite occurring in skarn zones. The Company believes that additional skarn-hosted mineralization may exist along strike from and at depth below the historical workings.
The high-resolution UAV magnetic survey aims to refine structural interpretation, map intrusive contacts, identify additional skarn targets, and test whether the White Star and Rowland workings are connected at depth. Soil geochemistry will help detect dispersion patterns from mineralized skarn zones, especially where bedrock exposure is limited.
Western Star is also initiating the permitting process to submit a Notice of Intent to the U.S. Forest Service, with the objective of positioning the project for drill testing of high-priority targets once the datasets are integrated.
For more information, refer to the USGS MRDS record (link: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10197459) and the Mission Cross Mine details (link: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10037692). The qualified person for this news release is Jasper Mowatt, MIMMM, MAusIMM.
