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Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - May 19th, 2026 - Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (the “Company” or “Western Star”) pleased to announce it has acquired the White Star Tungsten Project, a tungsten-molybdenum skarn property located in Elko County, Nevada, adjacent to the Company's existing Rowland Tungsten Project. The acquisition consolidates ground within and adjacent to one of the most significant and underexplored past-producing tungsten complexes in northeastern Nevada and establishes Western Star as the dominant landholder across a contiguous, district-scale tungsten footprint spanning the Jarbidge and Charleston Mining Districts.
Key Highlights:
Strategic consolidation of a district-scale tungsten position in Elko County, Nevada, with the White Star Tungsten Project, adjacent to the Company's Rowland Tungsten Project (figure 1).
Historical tungsten production of approximately 10000 tons of ore grading approximately 1.0% WO₃ (1954) and approximately 0.5% WO₃ (1956) from the broader White Star Tungsten Mines complex.
Documented tungsten occurrences, historical adits, and extensive surface workings are located within the White Star Project area, and surrounds the historical White Star Tungsten Mines infrastructure (figure 2).
Skarn mineralization is hosted within a contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum system developed along the contact of a Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock with Paleozoic limestones.
The 2026 work program will include surface sampling, prospecting, and systematic evaluation of the White Star Project
Blake Morgan, the CEO and President of Western Star, stated “by consolidating two historic tungsten mining Districts, Jarbidge and Charleston, Western Star can effectively explore and rapidly advance the two properties, covering over 6km of prospective tungsten bearing horizons. The team will move to get crews on the ground once approved and begin exploration and the drill permitting process.”
Property Location and Overview
The White Star Project is situated approximately nine miles by road southwest of the town of Jarbidge, in Elko County, Nevada. The Project claim package covers ground within Sections 13 and 24, Township 45 North, Range 57 East. The Project lies within the Charleston Mining District, immediately adjacent to the Jarbidge Mining District, which hosts Western Star's Rowland Tungsten Project. The direct adjacency of the two properties affords the Company significant strategic advantages, including shared road access, consolidated logistics, and the ability to advance both projects under a single district-scale exploration program.
Figure 1: White Star tungsten project, geology and proximity to Roland Property
The historical mineralized complex in this area appears in federal and state databases under several names reflecting successive operators and reporting periods, including the Batholith Mine, the White Star Mine, the Mission Cross Mine, the New Chance Mine, and the Stevens Mine. These named occurrences together form a single contiguous tungsten-molybdenum skarn complex, and is believed to have potential to be connected to the Rowland Property located 3km north.
Figure 2: Infrastructure from past production at the Mission Cross Mine which is located on a single third party claim within the newly acquired White Star Property
The White Star Project is documented extensively in the records of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS ID 10197459) and in the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) publications, including NBMG Bulletin 65 (1968), 105 (1988) and NBMG Mineral Resources of Elko County, Nevada (1976).
Geology
The Batholith Project is hosted within a contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum skarn system, the same deposit style that hosts mineralization at the Company's Rowland Tungsten Project. Regional geology consists of sedimentary rocks of Paleozoic age, intruded by a Cretaceous-age quartz monzonite stock and overlain in places by Tertiary rhyolite flows. Adjacent to the intrusive contact, the Paleozoic limestones have been recrystallized and locally contain tremolite and other skarn minerals, including scheelite, powellite, and molybdenite.
Historical USGS and NBMG descriptions of the broader complex report that scheelite occurs with molybdenite and powellite within a small pendant of skarn contained in a large granite outcrop. Additional historical mapping and sampling of the southern portion of the area, described in a brief property report by H.L. Bethel dated July 25, 1957, documents a thick garnetized limestone bed striking N50°W and dipping 26° southwest, capping a small hill. Historical operators benched and stripped an area more than 300 feet in diameter, exposing massive garnet and limestone silicates over 20 feet thick. A short adit below the outcrop exposes thin shale beds beneath the garnet horizon, and a small historical open stope approximately 8 feet high and 8 to 10 feet wide was carried approximately 20 feet down-dip along the garnet bed from an open cut. Historical observations note that scheelite fluoresces yellow near molybdenite spots and white elsewhere, consistent with variable molybdenum substitution in the scheelite, and that scattered pockets of molybdenite have yielded sorted material reported to average several percent molybdenum.
Strategic Rationale
The acquisition of the White Star Project delivers several strategic outcomes for Western Star. It establishes a district-scale land position spanning ground within both the Jarbidge and Charleston Mining Districts. It secures a claim package that sits within the same mineralized skarn setting the company is exploring at Rowland and contains several documented tungsten occurrences, historical adits, and surface workings. Both properties are contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum skarn systems developed around Cretaceous quartz monzonite intrusions into Paleozoic limestones and calcareous sediments.
Planned Work
Western Star intends to integrate the Batholith Project into the Company's planned exploration program at the Rowland Tungsten Project. Near-term activities will include surface mapping and systematic sampling of the adits, workings, and tungsten occurrences located within the Batholith Project claim package, together with the possible extension of the Company's planned high-resolution UAV magnetic survey across the combined property footprint. The consolidated survey will represent the first modern, integrated geophysical dataset across both properties and is expected to refine structural interpretation, map intrusive contacts, and identify additional skarn targets along strike and at depth from the known historical workings.
Terms of the Acquisition
Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company will acquire the Past Producing Jarbidge-Charleston Tungsten Complex in Elko, Nevada, USA. through a 100% acquisition, the Company will pay $70,000 and issue an aggregate of 3,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (each, a “Common Share”) to the Vendors and grant a 1% NSR royalty in respect of commercial production from the Property.
References
New Chance Mine: USGS MRDS, Coordinates: -115.49122, 41.7782 (WGS84) link
Batholith Mine: link
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MAusIMM (Membership No. 3178851), a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Western Star Resources
Western Star Resources is a mineral exploration and development company. The company’s objective is to increase shareholder value through the development of exploration properties using cost-effective exploration practices, acquiring further exploration properties and seeking partnerships by either joint venture or sale with industry leaders. The Company is currently advancing the Rowland Tungsten Property in Elko County, Nevada, USA. The company also owns nine non-surveyed contiguous mineral claims totaling 4,740 hectares, located within the Revelstoke mining division of British Columbia, approximately 50 kilometers southeast of Revelstoke, B.C., and roughly 10 kilometers north of the abandoned community of Camborne.
Contact Information:
Blake Morgan,
CEO and Director
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
Certain of the statements made and information contained herein may constitute “forward-looking information”. In particular references to the private placement and future work programs or expectations on the quality or results of such work programs are subject to risks associated with operations on the property, exploration activity generally, equipment limitations and availability, as well as other risks that we may not be currently aware of. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
