Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released an updated investor presentation that consolidates its rapidly advancing North American critical-minerals portfolio, with a strategic focus on building a significant U.S.-based tungsten exploration platform. The presentation, now available on the Company's website at www.westernstarresources.com, brings together for the first time the historical production records, modern exploration results, geophysical interpretations, surface sampling data, and emerging drill targets 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 updated presentation underscores the transformation Western Star has undergone over the past year, moving 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 now centers on three past-producing projects in two established mining jurisdictions, each offering a different stage of exploration opportunity, together providing a growing pipeline of potential drill targets.
At the Eagle Point project in New Mexico, Western Star holds a 100% interest in a past-producing tungsten property hosting eight historically mapped skarn bodies along approximately 1,500–2,000 feet of prospective granite-limestone contact. Historical production during 1943–44 totaled approximately 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material shipped to the U.S. Government stockpile at Deming, settled on a basis of 0.48% WO3. Surface sampling by the USGS and NMBGMR includes sample LH705, a scheelite-rich outcrop returning 27.6% WO3 and 0.98% Mo. In 1955, the U.S. Government prepared and recommended a Defense Minerals Exploration Administration exploration contract (Idm-E783, Docket DMEA-3701) that would have funded 75% of an exploration program involving shaft sinking and diamond drilling, but that contract never became effective.
Western Star's strategy for Eagle Point is to systematically advance the project using modern mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and, subject to permitting and financing, drilling to test historically identified tungsten mineralization and selected extensions. The objective is to generate sufficient modern geological, analytical, and QA/QC information to determine whether Eagle Point can support the preparation of a maiden mineral resource estimate in accordance with NI 43-101. The Company is targeting a maiden drilling program during 2026, as previously disclosed.
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, 2026 exploration returned selected rock, float, and channel results of up to 4.02% WO3 (sample RO-16-01), with soil geochemistry, UAV magnetics, and geological mapping identifying Central and Rowland Main as principal exploration target areas within an approximately one-kilometre geochemical corridor. At White Star, a selective rock sample (WS-16-02) 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 potential for government support, as tungsten's importance to defence, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing has placed secure critical-mineral supply chains firmly within U.S. strategic policy discussions. Western Star 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.
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.”
In addition, the presentation covers the Western Star Property in British Columbia, a 4,740-hectare project permitted for a multi-pad drill program, hosting twelve documented MINFILE mineral occurrences, providing additional exposure to gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc.
