Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released an updated investor presentation that consolidates its rapidly advancing U.S. critical-minerals portfolio, with a focus on building a significant tungsten exploration platform. The presentation, available on the company's website at www.westernstarresources.com, brings together for the first time the historical production record, modern exploration results, geophysical interpretations, surface sampling, emerging drill targets, and planned advancement strategy across its Eagle Point, Rowland, and White Star tungsten projects in the United States, along with its drill-permitted polymetallic Western Star Project in British Columbia.
The release of this presentation marks a significant transformation for Western Star, which has evolved from acquiring historically productive mineral assets to actively generating modern exploration data and advancing priority targets toward drill testing. The company's U.S. tungsten strategy is centered on three past-producing projects in two established mining jurisdictions, each offering different stages of exploration opportunity and collectively 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 project with eight historically mapped skarn bodies along approximately 1,500–2,000 feet of prospective granite-limestone contact. Historical production during 1943–44 shipped about 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material to the U.S. Government stockpile, settled on a basis of 0.48% WO3. Surface sampling by the USGS and New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources includes sample LH705, a scheelite-rich outcrop returning 27.6% WO3 and 0.98% Mo. In 1955, the U.S. Government prepared a Defense Minerals Exploration Administration contract that would have funded 75% of an exploration program involving shaft sinking and diamond drilling, but that contract never became effective.
Western Star's objective at Eagle Point is to generate sufficient modern geological, analytical, and QA/QC information to determine whether the project can support a maiden mineral resource estimate in accordance with National Instrument 43-101. The company is targeting a maiden drilling program during 2026, subject to permitting, financing, and other considerations, to investigate the geometry, grade, and continuity of the historically identified tungsten-bearing skarn mineralization and test selected extensions.
In Nevada, the Rowland and White Star projects form a consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint covering more than six kilometres of prospective tungsten-bearing horizons. At Rowland, Western Star's 2026 exploration program returned selected rock, float, and channel results of up to 4.02% WO3, and soil geochemistry, UAV magnetics, and geological mapping have identified 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 the company's 100%-owned Western Star Property in British Columbia, which is permitted for a multi-pad drill program and hosts twelve documented MINFILE mineral occurrences, providing additional exposure to gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc mineralization.
Blake Morgan, President and CEO, commented, "The purpose of this new presentation is to show investors exactly what Western Star has built and, more importantly, where we intend to take it next. 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."
Western Star intends to continue assessing available U.S. federal programs that may support domestic critical-mineral exploration and development, including potential grant and cost-sharing opportunities. The company has submitted an application in response to a U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium solicitation relating to reliable supplies of strategic critical minerals, though there is no assurance of funding.
This strategic move underscores the growing importance of tungsten in defense, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing, and Western Star's efforts to position itself as a key player in the U.S. critical minerals supply chain.
