Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has announced priority drill targets and a planned four-hole, approximately 1,950-foot (594-metre) drill program for its 100% owned White Star Tungsten Project in Elko County, Nevada. Combined with the six holes and approximately 3,050 feet previously announced at the Rowland property, the company’s planned 2026 Nevada drill program now totals 10 holes and approximately 5,000 feet (1,524 metres) from seven drill pads across the two properties.
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. According to the company, every planned drill pad is sited on existing disturbance, which could streamline permitting and reduce surface impact.
The North Zone will be tested by two holes totaling 1,000 feet. WST26-01 is collared on an existing road beside a rehabilitated historical pit at rock-chip sample WS-16-01 (0.126% WO3) and will drill steeply north-east beneath the pit. WST26-02 will test beneath soil samples B064 and B047 on the southern side of the anomaly. The zone is developed across the contact between quartz monzonite and tactite and calc-silicate hornfels, the conventional setting for tungsten skarn mineralization. For detailed collar locations and orientations, see Table 1: White Star drill targets and the combined 2026 Nevada drill program.
The South Zone will be tested by two holes totaling 950 feet from a single pad. WST26-03 and WST26-04 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. The inversion shows the South Zone overlying a non-magnetic trough that coincides with an interpreted magnetic-low lineament. A cross-section is available in Figure 3: South Zone – plan and cross-section B–B′ through planned holes WST26-03 and WST26-04, showing the non-magnetic trough beneath the soil anomaly.
Permitting is advancing in parallel, with a Plan of Operations being prepared by KC Harvey Environmental for submission to the U.S. Forest Service and a reclamation permit with the Nevada Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation. The objective is to drill Rowland and White Star as a single, district-scale campaign. CEO and President Blake Morgan stated that the consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint can now move into the drill program as a single campaign of ten holes and approximately 5,000 feet.
White Star is the third project in the company’s U.S. tungsten portfolio to reach the drill-target stage in 2026, following Rowland and another property. The company’s strategic emphasis on tungsten and critical minerals in the United States comes amid growing demand for domestic sources of the metal. No new assay results are reported in this release; soil and rock-chip values are surficial and selective, and should not be interpreted as indicative of grade or mineral resources. The planned drill holes are preliminary and subject to adjustment pending field verification and permitting. The original release is available at www.newmediawire.com.
