Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released an updated investor presentation that consolidates its U.S. tungsten platform, showcasing three past-producing tungsten assets in Nevada and New Mexico, high-grade exploration results, and a clear strategy to advance these projects toward potential NI 43-101 mineral resource definition. The presentation, now available on the company’s website, marks a significant milestone in Western Star’s transformation from a historical asset holder to a modern exploration company with drill-ready targets.
The presentation highlights the company’s progress across its key projects: the Eagle Point project in New Mexico, and the Rowland and White Star projects in Nevada. At Eagle Point, Western Star has consolidated historical production data, surface sampling results, and geophysical interpretations. The project hosts eight historically mapped skarn bodies along a prospective granite-limestone contact, with historical production of approximately 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material shipped to the U.S. Government stockpile in 1943–44. Surface sampling by USGS and NMBGMR returned high-grade results, including a scheelite-rich outcrop sample with 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, but the contract never became effective, leaving the project largely untested with modern techniques.
Western Star’s strategy at Eagle Point is to systematically advance the project through modern mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and drilling, with the goal of generating sufficient data to determine if a maiden NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate is possible. The company is targeting a drilling program in 2026, subject to permitting, financing, and contractor availability. However, there is no assurance that drilling will result in a resource definition.
In Nevada, the Rowland and White Star projects form a consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint spanning more than six kilometres of prospective horizons. Recent exploration at Rowland returned rock, float, and channel samples with up to 4.02% WO3, and soil geochemistry identified a coherent tungsten-copper-molybdenum-bismuth signature across a one-kilometre corridor. At White Star, a selective rock sample returned 3.00% WO3 and 711 ppm Mo, and a high-resolution UAV magnetic survey identified multiple target zones. The company has initiated drill-permitting activities with a USFS Plan of Operations to be submitted shortly for the consolidated district.
The updated presentation also underscores the strategic importance of tungsten to U.S. critical-mineral policy. Tungsten is essential for defence, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing, and securing domestic supply chains has become a national priority. Western Star is actively assessing federal programs that could provide non-dilutive funding, and has already submitted an application to a U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium solicitation for reliable supplies of strategic critical minerals. However, there is no assurance of receiving such funding.
Blake Morgan, President and CEO, commented on the company’s progress: "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 Rowland, drill permitting has commenced. 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 to its U.S. focus, Western Star retains a 100% interest in the Western Star Property in British Columbia, which is permitted for a multi-pad drill program and hosts multiple MINFILE occurrences, providing optionality in gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc.
The company’s disciplined approach—define targets, obtain approvals, drill the best opportunities, and advance toward compliant resources—positions it to capitalize on the growing U.S. demand for critical minerals. Investors can view the full presentation at www.westernstarresources.com.
