Western Star Resources Unveils Updated Investor Presentation Highlighting U.S. Tungsten Portfolio and 2026 Drilling Strategy

Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has released an updated investor presentation that provides a comprehensive overview of its rapidly advancing North American critical-minerals portfolio, with a strategic focus on building a significant U.S.-based tungsten exploration platform. The presentation brings together, for the first time in a single corporate document, the historical production record, modern exploration results, geophysical interpretation, surface sampling, emerging drill targets, and planned advancement strategy across the Company’s Eagle Point, Rowland, and White Star tungsten projects in the United States, alongside its drill-permitted polymetallic Western Star Project in British Columbia.

The updated presentation demonstrates the significant transformation Western Star has undergone over the past year, moving 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 around three past-producing projects in two established U.S. 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, Western Star holds a 100% interest in a past-producing tungsten project hosting eight historically mapped skarn bodies along approximately 1,500–2,000 feet of prospective granite-limestone contact. Historical production totaled approximately 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material shipped to the U.S. Government stockpile during 1943–44, settled on a basis of 0.48% WO3. Surface sampling by the USGS and NMBGMR includes sample LH705, a scheelite-rich outcrop returning 27.6% WO3 and 0.98% Mo. In 1955, the U.S. Government prepared and recommended a Defense Minerals Exploration Administration exploration contract (Idm-E783, Docket DMEA-3701) under which it would have funded 75% of an exploration program involving shaft sinking and diamond drilling. Western Star intends to use modern mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and, subject to permitting and financing, drilling to test historically identified tungsten mineralization and selected extensions. The objective is to generate sufficient modern geological, analytical, and QA/QC information to determine whether Eagle Point may support a maiden mineral resource estimate in accordance with NI 43-101.

At the Rowland project in Nevada, Western Star’s 2026 exploration program returned selected rock, float, and channel results of up to 4.02% WO3 (sample RO-16-01, Rowland Main). Soil geochemistry, UAV magnetics, and geological mapping have identified Central and Rowland Main as principal exploration target areas within an approximately one-kilometre geochemical corridor. At the adjoining White Star project, a 2026 selective rock sample (WS-16-02) returned 3.00% WO3 and 711 ppm Mo. The Company’s first modern high-resolution UAV magnetic dataset has identified multiple interpreted target zones beyond the known historical workings. Together, Rowland and White Star form the consolidated Jarbidge–Charleston tungsten footprint, covering more than six kilometres of prospective tungsten-bearing horizons. Drill permitting activities have been initiated with a USFS Plan of Operations due to be submitted shortly.

The updated presentation highlights the potential for government support, as tungsten's importance to defence, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing has placed secure critical-mineral supply chains firmly within U.S. strategic policy discussions. Western Star has submitted an application in response to a U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium solicitation relating to reliable supplies of strategic critical minerals. However, there is no assurance that the Company will qualify for or receive funding under that solicitation or any other government program.

Blake Morgan, President and CEO of Western Star Resources, 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 Rowland, drill permitting has commenced. 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. What excites us about Eagle Point is the combination of historical production, eight mapped skarn bodies, exceptional reported surface results, and a system that remains largely untested using modern exploration techniques. Our objective is to generate the modern drilling and geological data necessary to determine whether Eagle Point can support a maiden NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate, while at the same time testing the broader exploration potential of the system.”

The presentation is available on the Company's website at www.westernstarresources.com. Western Star Resources is a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and advancement of mineral properties, with a growing strategic emphasis on tungsten and critical minerals in the United States.