Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released the plan for the first phase of exploration at its 100% owned White Star Tungsten Project in Elko County, Nevada, still pending final approval from the Canadian Securities Exchange. The project is a past-producing tungsten-molybdenum skarn property located approximately nine miles by road southwest of Jarbidge, in the Charleston Mining District, adjacent to the company's Rowland Tungsten Project.
The company has acted rapidly since acquiring the property to plan and prepare for the maiden exploration campaign. The program is designed to deliver geophysical and geochemical datasets required to define and rank drill targets across the property and to support the Notice of Intent and drill-permitting process with relevant authorities in Elko County.
Key highlights include the first modern exploration program planned for the White Star Tungsten Project since the Mission Cross Mine was shut down in the 1950s. Property-wide surveys will include a high-resolution UAV magnetometer survey and a soil geochemistry campaign to define the signature of the past-producing Mission Cross workings. Historical tungsten production at the Mission Cross Mine recorded approximately 1,000 tons of ore assaying up to 1.0% WO(3) (USGS Bulletin 105), believed to be part of a larger system which this exploration program aims to map out.
White Star sits within the same contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum skarn setting as the adjoining Rowland Tungsten Project, with the two properties together covering more than six kilometers of prospective tungsten-bearing horizons. 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. This is expected to generate datasets leading to drillable targets. Running this in parallel with Rowland gives shareholders a single, integrated district story across the Jarbidge and Charleston mining districts.”
The White Star Tungsten Project is located in the Charleston Mining District, immediately adjacent to the Jarbidge Mining District which hosts Western Star’s Rowland Tungsten Project. The proximity offers significant strategic advantages, including shared road access, consolidated logistics, and the ability to advance both projects under a single district-scale exploration program. The company believes both properties could belong to a contiguous tungsten-molybdenum skarn complex.
Since acquiring the White Star Project, the company has compiled available historical data from USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS ID 10197459), NBMG Bulletin 65 (1968), NBMG Bulletin 105 (1988), and NBMG Mineral Resources of Elko County, Nevada (1976), integrating that compilation with the regional geological framework already developed for the adjoining Rowland Tungsten Project. The planned 2026 field program is built around generating high-resolution data to understand the scale of the system historically exploited at the Mission Cross Mine. There is strong potential that multiple Mission Cross type tungsten opportunities exist within the claim package. The use of property-wide UAV magnetic survey and soil geochemistry provides a mechanism to rapidly advance understanding and produce structural, geophysical, geochemical, and lithological vectors required to define drill targets.
The White Star Tungsten Project is hosted within a contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum skarn system, the same deposit style that hosts mineralization at Rowland. Regional geology consists of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks intruded by a Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock and overlain by Tertiary rhyolite flows. Adjacent to the intrusive contact, Paleozoic limestones have been recrystallized and contain skarn minerals including scheelite, powellite, and molybdenite. USGS Bulletin 105 reports that at the Mission Cross Mine, scheelite occurs with molybdenite and powellite in a skarn contained within a large granite outcrop. Historical operators developed open-pit and underground workings during 1954 and 1956. The granite-carbonate contact is interpreted as the primary zone of prospectivity, and Western Star believes additional skarn-hosted mineralization may exist along strike and at depth.
Historical mapping indicates a system of intrusive contacts, faults, and structural corridors controlling mineralizing fluids. The absence of modern high-resolution geophysics has limited interpretation of intrusive geometry and concealed contacts. To address this, Western Star plans a high-resolution UAV magnetic survey across the full White Star property, the first modern geophysical survey on the project, designed to refine structural interpretation, map intrusive contacts, identify additional skarn targets, and test whether White Star and Rowland workings are connected at depth along a common intrusive contact.
The company will undertake a systematic property-wide soil sampling campaign to detect dispersion patterns from mineralized skarn zones, especially where bedrock exposure is limited. This is expected to be particularly useful at White Star because prospective skarn horizons may extend well beyond known workings.
Western Star is initiating work to submit a Notice of Intent to the U.S. Forest Service in Elko County for the White Star Tungsten Project. The company intends to advance permitting in parallel with the 2026 exploration program, with the objective of positioning the project for drill testing of high-priority targets once datasets are integrated. Further updates will be provided as field mobilization, geophysical interpretations, and laboratory assay results become available.
The acquisition of the White Star Tungsten Project remains subject to final approval by the CSE. References include USGS MRDS (link: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10197459) and Mission Cross/Batholith Mine (link: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10163289). The scientific and technical information has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, a Qualified Person as defined under NI 43-101.
