Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has announced priority drill targets and a planned four-hole, approximately 1,950-foot drill program at its 100% owned White Star Tungsten Project in Elko County, Nevada. Together with the six holes planned at the nearby Rowland property, the company’s 2026 Nevada drill program now comprises 10 holes totalling approximately 5,000 feet from seven drill pads across the two properties. The announcement completes the planned drill program and positions White Star as the third project in the company’s U.S. tungsten portfolio to reach the drill-target stage in 2026.
The White Star targets were developed using an integrated approach combining the maiden field program, a UAV magnetic survey, three-dimensional magnetic inversion, and rock-chip and soil assay results. Each planned hole tests one of two tungsten-in-soil anomalies defined in 2026: the North Zone and the South Zone. At the North Zone, two holes totalling 1,000 feet will test beneath rock-chip sample WS-16-01 (0.126% WO3) and beneath the southern part of the soil anomaly, which is developed across the quartz monzonite–tactite contact mapped by Coats (1964). At the South Zone, two holes totalling 950 feet will test beneath soil sample B206 (2,230 ppm W; 0.28% WO3), the highest value returned at White Star, and adjacent anomalous samples B205 and B203. All planned drill pads are sited on existing disturbance, and hole locations remain preliminary pending field verification and permitting.
Blake Morgan, CEO and President of Western Star, stated, “Following our Rowland announcement, White Star moves into the drill-target stage on the back of the same integrated field season. The Batholith Mine is the only documented historical tungsten producer in the Charleston Mining District, and our maiden program has built a modern dataset around it for the first time. With both Rowland and White Star now ready for drill testing, the consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint can move into the drill program as a single, district-scale campaign of ten holes and approximately 5,000 feet.” The company’s planned drill hole collar locations and orientations are detailed in Table 2: Planned drill hole collar locations and orientations, White Star Tungsten Project.
Permitting is advancing in parallel, with a Plan of Operations being prepared by KC Harvey Environmental for submission to the U.S. Forest Service, alongside the Nevada Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation reclamation permit. The objective is to drill Rowland and White Star as a single, district-scale campaign. The company will provide further updates as permitting milestones are reached. The scientific and technical information in the release was reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. No new assay results are reported; soil geochemical values represent surficial dispersion and are not indicative of grade or mineral resources.
The completion of the drill-target inventory across both properties is significant because it consolidates Western Star’s Nevada tungsten assets into a single, district-scale exploration program. With 10 holes and approximately 5,000 feet planned, the company is moving from surface sampling and geophysics to direct drill testing of coincident soil anomalies and modelled magnetic contacts, the conventional setting for tungsten skarn mineralisation. For a junior explorer focused on critical minerals, this represents a major de-risking step and could provide the first modern drill test of a historical tungsten district. The original release is available on www.newmediawire.com.
