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 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 record, modern exploration results, geophysical interpretation, 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 announcement underscores Western Star's transformation over the past year 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 now centered on three past-producing projects in two established mining jurisdictions, each offering a different stage of exploration opportunity, and together providing a growing pipeline of potential drill targets.
At the Eagle Point project in New Mexico, a 100%-interest past-producing tungsten project, the company highlights eight historically mapped skarn bodies along approximately 1,500–2,000 feet of prospective granite-limestone contact. Historical production totalled approximately 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material shipped to the U.S. Government stockpile during 1943–44, with surface sampling by the USGS and New Mexico Bureau of Geology returning up to 27.6% WO3. Notably, in 1955 the U.S. Government prepared and recommended a Defense Minerals Exploration Administration exploration contract under which it would have funded 75% of an exploration program involving shaft sinking and diamond drilling, but that contract never became effective. Western Star intends to use modern mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and drilling to test historically identified tungsten mineralization and selected extensions, with the objective of determining whether Eagle Point may support a maiden mineral resource estimate in accordance with NI 43-101. The company is targeting a maiden drilling program during 2026, subject to permitting, financing, and other conditions.
In Nevada, the Rowland and White Star projects form the company's 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, and soil geochemistry and UAV magnetics 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 a high-resolution UAV magnetic dataset has identified multiple interpreted target zones beyond historical workings. The company has initiated drill-permitting activities with a USFS Plan of Operations due to be submitted shortly.
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."
The company also highlights its 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.
Tungsten's importance to defence, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing has placed secure critical-mineral supply chains within U.S. strategic policy discussions. Western Star intends to continue assessing available U.S. federal programs that may support domestic critical-mineral exploration, including potential grant and cost-sharing opportunities. The company has already 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.
The updated presentation provides investors with detailed project maps, historical workings, geological interpretations, sampling locations, and geophysical datasets, illustrating how Western Star is progressively moving its U.S. portfolio from historical information toward modern target definition. All scientific and technical information has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.
