Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has mobilized its technical team to the Rowland Tungsten Property in Elko County, Nevada, to commence the first phase of its 2026 field exploration program. The program includes a high-resolution drone magnetic survey, systematic prospecting, sampling of historical waste dumps and workings, and a property-wide soil geochemistry campaign designed to refine the Company's understanding of prospective tungsten-bearing skarn horizons.
The Company's objective is to use modern geophysics and geochemistry to better define structural and geological controls on mineralization at Rowland, with the goal of generating drill-ready targets during the 2026 field season. This marks the first modern exploration program on the past-producing tungsten system, which has documented historical production from the 1940s and 1950s but has never been evaluated using modern techniques.
Blake Morgan, CEO and President of Western Star, stated, "Our team is now on the ground at Rowland and beginning the first modern exploration program on this past-producing tungsten system. The property has documented historical production, visible historical workings, and a compelling skarn geological setting, but it has never been evaluated using modern drone geophysics and systematic property-wide geochemistry. This program is designed to move Rowland from a historical tungsten occurrence toward a modern, drill-targeted exploration project."
The 2026 field program focuses on three immediate objectives: mapping the prospective skarn horizon more accurately, evaluating historical workings and waste dumps, and defining property-wide geochemical trends. Existing geological mapping indicates the property is underlain by limestones, shales, and quartzites intruded by a Cretaceous-aged quartz monzonite stock, with contact metamorphism forming skarn and hornfels zones—the primary environment for tungsten mineralization.
Field crews will inspect, map, photograph, and sample historical workings, including open cuts, pits, trenches, shafts, adits, and waste dumps. Portable XRF will be used as a field-screening tool to rapidly identify anomalous tungsten and associated elements, though the Company cautions that these readings are preliminary and not a substitute for certified laboratory assays. The soil sampling campaign is intended to identify tungsten-bearing geochemical trends, especially where bedrock exposure is limited.
The drone magnetic survey will provide high-resolution geophysical coverage to refine understanding of intrusive geometry, structural trends, and potential contacts between intrusive and carbonate-bearing units. These contacts are critical because tungsten skarn systems form where mineralizing fluids from granitic intrusions interact with carbonate-rich rocks. Western Star expects preliminary processed geophysical products in the coming weeks.
Results from the drone magnetic survey, field prospecting, XRF screening, and soil sampling will be integrated into a revised geological model to define priority drill targets during the 2026 field season. The Company also noted it will have news regarding drill permits soon.
The Rowland Tungsten Property is located in the Jarbidge mining district of northeastern Nevada. Historical production includes reported high-grade tungsten ore shipments during the 1940s and additional production during the 1950s, though these figures have not been independently verified by Western Star. The Company believes the key exploration opportunity is that the broader system has not been systematically evaluated using modern tools, and the orientation, continuity, and extent of mineralized skarn horizons remain insufficiently understood.
The scientific and technical information in this release has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MAusIMM, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Western Star Resources is a mineral exploration and development company advancing the Rowland Tungsten Property in Nevada and also holds claims in British Columbia.
