Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) has announced priority drill targets at its 100%-owned White Star Tungsten Project in Elko County, Nevada, completing the company's planned 2026 Nevada drill program. The announcement adds a four-hole, approximately 1,950-foot program at White Star to the six holes previously outlined at the nearby Rowland Tungsten Property, bringing the combined 2026 campaign to 10 holes totalling approximately 5,000 feet across seven drill pads. Investors may be watching closely given tungsten's status as a critical mineral and the district-scale ambitions the company has outlined for its Nevada portfolio.

Key Points

  • Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR; OTC: WSRIF; FRA: 4K2) is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company focused on tungsten and critical minerals.
  • The company has defined two priority drill targets — the North Zone and the South Zone — at its White Star Tungsten Project, approximately 4 kilometres south of the Rowland property.
  • The combined 2026 Nevada drill program now comprises 10 holes totalling approximately 5,000 feet (1,524 metres) from seven drill pads across the two properties.
  • Investors should watch for permitting milestones as the Plan of Operations advances to the U.S. Forest Service and the Nevada Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation.

North Zone and South Zone Targets Defined at White Star

Western Star identified two distinct tungsten-in-soil anomalies at White Star using an integrated approach combining UAV magnetic survey data, three-dimensional magnetic inversion, and rock-chip and soil assay results. The North Zone is developed across the contact between quartz monzonite and tactite — a conventional setting for tungsten skarn mineralisation — and will be tested by two holes totalling 1,000 feet. The South Zone, which hosts soil sample B206 returning 2,230 ppm W (0.28% WO₃), the highest value recorded at White Star, will be tested by two holes totalling 950 feet from a single drill pad.

White Star Completes the District-Scale Jarbidge–Charleston Drill Campaign

With White Star now at the drill-target stage, Western Star states that its consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint can advance as a single district-scale campaign. White Star is the third project in the company's U.S. tungsten portfolio to reach drill-target stage in 2026. CEO Blake Morgan noted in the release that White Star's maiden program has built a modern dataset around the Batholith Mine, described as the only documented historical tungsten producer in the Charleston Mining District, for the first time. All planned drill pads at White Star are sited on existing disturbance.

Permitting Advancing in Parallel for Single Combined Drill Campaign

KC Harvey Environmental is preparing the Plan of Operations for White Star for submission to the U.S. Forest Service. A reclamation permit application to the Nevada Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation is also advancing concurrently. The company states both properties are being advanced together so that Rowland and White Star can be drilled in a single campaign. Hole locations, pad designs, and orientations remain preliminary and subject to adjustment pending field verification and permitting, the release notes.

Technical Oversight and Qualified Person Sign-Off

The technical content of the announcement was reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MIMMM and MAusIMM, a consultant to Western Star and a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101. The company notes that no new assay results are reported in this announcement, and that soil geochemical values represent surficial dispersion and should not be interpreted as indicative of grade or any mineral resource. The three-dimensional magnetic inversion was completed by East Coast Consulting from the company's 2026 UAV magnetic survey.