According to foreign media reports, Western Star Resources (CSE: WSR) has acquired 100% ownership of the White Star Tungsten Project in Nevada, USA, and has outlined its inaugural 2026 exploration program. This acquisition further consolidates the Company’s control over a tungsten-molybdenum skarn system in Elko County, Nevada. It also marks the formal commencement of modern exploration on this strategically important historical U.S. tungsten asset, at a time when global tungsten prices remain elevated and U.S. defense supply chains face increasing tightness.
Tungsten is widely used in defense and military applications, aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, automotive production, medical devices, nuclear shielding, drilling tools, and new energy sectors due to its exceptionally high melting point, hardness, and wear resistance. Western countries such as the United States and Europe have designated tungsten as a critical mineral. However, global tungsten supply is highly dependent on China, which controls approximately 50% of the world’s tungsten resources and accounts for nearly 80% of global annual production.
The White Star Tungsten Project is in the Charleston Mining District, Elko County, Nevada. It offers excellent road access and lies approximately nine miles (about 14.5 km) southwest of the Jarbidge Mining District. The project is immediately adjacent to Western Star Resources’ existing Rowland Tungsten Project. Together, the two projects cover more than six kilometers of prospective tungsten-bearing horizons. Western Star Resources believes the two properties may form part of a single contiguous tungsten-molybdenum skarn complex with the geological potential to host a large tungsten system, presenting significant exploration upside.
Geologically, the White Star Tungsten Project is hosted within a contact metamorphic tungsten-molybdenum skarn system developed along the contact between Cretaceous quartz monzonite intrusions and Paleozoic limestones. The regional geology consists of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks intruded by Cretaceous quartz monzonite, with local Tertiary rhyolite flows. Near the intrusive contacts, the Paleozoic limestones have been recrystallized and locally contain tremolite and other skarn minerals, including scheelite, powellite, and molybdenite. The project has a history of small-scale production; the Mission Cross occurrence within the property produced approximately 1,000 tons of ore in the 1950s, with WO? grades reaching up to 1.0%.
Western Star Resources is a junior mining company focused on the exploration and development of critical minerals in North America. In addition to its Nevada tungsten projects, it also holds the Western Star Project in the Revelstoke Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada.
