Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released an updated investor presentation that consolidates its expanding U.S. tungsten portfolio and outlines a disciplined strategy to advance these assets toward drilling and potential resource definition. The presentation, available on the company's website at www.westernstarresources.com, brings together historical production records, modern exploration results, geophysical interpretations, and emerging drill targets across its Eagle Point, Rowland, and White Star projects in New Mexico and Nevada.
The updated presentation marks a significant transformation for the company over the past year, moving from acquiring historically productive mineral assets to actively generating modern exploration data and prioritizing targets for drill testing. Western Star's U.S. tungsten strategy is now centered around three past-producing projects in two established mining jurisdictions, each offering different stages of exploration opportunity, providing a growing pipeline of potential drill targets.
At the Eagle Point project in New Mexico, the company holds a 100% interest in a past-producing tungsten property with eight historically mapped skarn bodies along approximately 1,500–2,000 feet of prospective granite-limestone contact. Historical production totaled about 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material shipped to the U.S. Government stockpile during 1943–44, with surface sampling by the USGS and New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources including a scheelite-rich outcrop sample returning 27.6% WO3 and 0.98% Mo. Notably, in 1955 the U.S. Government recommended a Defense Minerals Exploration Administration contract that would have funded 75% of an exploration program involving shaft sinking and diamond drilling, though that contract never became effective. Western Star intends to use modern mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and drilling to test historically identified mineralization and selected extensions, with the objective of generating sufficient data to determine whether Eagle Point can support a maiden NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate. The company is targeting a maiden drilling program during 2026, subject to permitting, financing, and other customary considerations.
In Nevada, the Rowland and White Star projects are being advanced as a consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint covering more than six kilometres of prospective tungsten-bearing horizons. At Rowland, the 2026 exploration program returned selected rock, float, and channel results up to 4.02% WO3, with soil geochemistry, UAV magnetics, and geological mapping identifying Central and Rowland Main as principal target areas within an approximately one-kilometre geochemical corridor. At White Star, a selective rock sample returned 3.00% WO3 and 711 ppm Mo, and the first modern high-resolution UAV magnetic dataset has identified multiple interpreted target zones beyond known historical workings. The company has initiated drill-permitting activities with a USFS Plan of Operations due to be submitted shortly.
The updated presentation also highlights Western Star's 100%-owned Western Star Property in British Columbia, which is drill-permitted and hosts twelve documented MINFILE mineral occurrences, providing additional exposure to gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc, though the principal corporate focus remains the U.S. tungsten portfolio.
Blake Morgan, President and CEO, commented: “We have assembled three past-producing tungsten projects in the United States and we are no longer simply talking about historical potential. At Rowland and White Star we have generated modern geophysics, geochemistry and certified laboratory results. At Eagle Point, we are working toward systematically testing a tungsten system that attracted significant U.S. Government attention historically, but where the principal government-backed drilling program was never completed.” He added that the company intends to aggressively pursue the geological opportunity while remaining disciplined on capital and focused on creating long-term value for shareholders.
Western Star believes the updated presentation demonstrates the significant progress made in building a relevant critical-minerals portfolio. The company is also assessing U.S. federal programs that may support domestic critical-mineral exploration, having submitted an application in response to a U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium solicitation, though there is no assurance of receiving funding. The company's strategy is to define targets, obtain approvals, drill the best opportunities, and advance projects toward compliant mineral resources where data supports it.
