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. The White Star program, combined with the six holes and approximately 3,050 feet announced at the nearby Rowland property on October 13, 2026, brings the company’s planned 2026 Nevada drill campaign to 10 holes totaling 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 that combines the maiden field program, a UAV magnetic survey with three-dimensional magnetic inversion, and rock-chip and soil assay results, according to the company’s release distributed via NEWMEDIAWIRE. Each planned hole tests one of two tungsten-in-soil anomalies defined in 2026—the North Zone and the South Zone—and every planned drill pad is sited on existing disturbance, the company said.
The North Zone program comprises two holes totaling 1,000 feet. One hole will test beneath rock-chip sample WS-16-01, which returned 0.126% WO3, and beneath the southern part of the soil anomaly developed across the quartz monzonite–tactite contact. The second hole will test beneath soil samples B064 and B047 on the southern side of the anomaly. At the South Zone, two holes totaling 950 feet will be drilled from a single pad to test beneath soil sample B206, which returned 2,230 ppm tungsten (0.28% WO3), the highest value returned at White Star, as well as adjacent anomalous samples B205 and B203. The full target inventory and combined program are detailed in Table 1: White Star drill targets and the combined 2026 Nevada drill program.
Permitting is advancing in parallel. The Plan of Operations for the proposed drill program is 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, with the objective of drilling Rowland and White Star as a single, district-scale campaign. Hole locations and designs remain preliminary and subject to field verification and permitting.
Blake Morgan, CEO and President of Western Star, said the White Star milestone follows the Rowland announcement and noted that the Batholith Mine is the only documented historical tungsten producer in the Charleston Mining District. Morgan added that the maiden program has built a modern dataset around the mine for the first time, positioning the consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint for a single drill campaign of ten holes and approximately 5,000 feet.
The announcement matters because it marks the third project in Western Star’s U.S. tungsten portfolio to reach the drill-target stage in 2026, signaling a shift from early-stage exploration to systematic testing across a consolidated district-scale land position. Tungsten is a critical mineral for which the United States relies heavily on imports, and advancing domestic past-producing assets toward modern drill testing could support future supply development. However, the company cautioned that no new assay results are reported and that soil geochemical values represent surficial dispersion, not grade or mineral resource estimates. The original release is available at www.newmediawire.com.
