Western Star Resources Mobilizes Field Team for Modern Exploration at Rowland Tungsten Property

Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) announced that its technical team has mobilized to the Rowland Tungsten Property in Elko County, Nevada, to commence the first phase of the 2026 field exploration program. The program includes a high-resolution drone magnetic survey, systematic prospecting, sampling of historical waste dumps and workings, and a property-wide soil geochemistry campaign designed to refine the Company’s understanding of the prospective tungsten-bearing skarn horizons.

The Company’s objective is to use modern geophysics and geochemistry to better define the structural and geological controls on mineralization at Rowland, with the goal of generating drill-ready targets during the 2026 field season. Field crews have mobilized to the past-producing tungsten system, which has documented historical production including reported high-grade tungsten ore shipments during the 1940s and additional production in the 1950s. However, these historical figures have not been independently verified by Western Star.

Key highlights of the program include the commencement of a drone magnetic survey to map intrusive contacts, structural corridors, and potential skarn zones across the property. Systematic prospecting of historical workings, waste dumps, pits, trenches, and adits previously identified through LiDAR review and field compilation will be conducted. Portable XRF screening will be used to rapidly assess tungsten and associated pathfinder elements in waste dumps and altered material. Additionally, a property-wide soil sampling campaign will define tungsten geochemical trends across the broader land package.

Drone geophysical results are expected in the coming weeks, subject to contractor processing and interpretation timelines. Soil samples will be submitted for certified laboratory analysis, with assay results to be released following review and interpretation. The program is designed to refine the prospective horizon and generate drill targets by the end of the 2026 field season.

Blake Morgan, CEO and President of Western Star, stated, “Our team is now on the ground at Rowland and beginning the first modern exploration program on this past-producing tungsten system. The property has documented historical production, visible historical workings, and a compelling skarn geological setting, but it has never been evaluated using modern drone geophysics and systematic property-wide geochemistry. This program is designed to move Rowland from a historical tungsten occurrence toward a modern, drill-targeted exploration project. This key data will give us what we need to generate high priority drill targets ready for our maiden 2026 drill program. We will have some news regarding drill permits soon.”

The 2026 field program focuses on three immediate objectives: accurately mapping the prospective skarn horizon, evaluating historical workings and waste dumps, and defining property-wide geochemical trends. The property’s geology includes limestones, shales, and quartzites intruded by a Cretaceous-aged quartz monzonite stock, with contact metamorphism forming skarn and hornfels zones. Historical mapping describes scheelite occurring with molybdenite, powellite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and limonite in a garnet-epidote-quartz-calcite skarn assemblage, with skarn and hornfels zones up to 100 feet wide.

The drone magnetic survey will provide high-resolution geophysical coverage to refine understanding of intrusive geometry and structural trends. Soil geochemistry and XRF screening will help identify blind or underexplored zones. The Company expects to integrate all data to define priority drill targets during the 2026 field season. The scientific and technical information has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MAusIMM, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

For more information, readers can refer to the Company’s public disclosures. This news release contains forward-looking information subject to risks and uncertainties, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update such information except as required by law.