Western Star Resources Unveils Updated Presentation Detailing U.S. Tungsten Assets and Exploration Strategy

Vancouver, British Columbia — August 19, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Western Star Resources Inc. has released an updated investor presentation detailing its North American critical-minerals portfolio and its strategy to establish a significant U.S.-focused tungsten exploration platform. The presentation consolidates historical production data, modern exploration results, geophysical interpretations, surface sampling, and planned advancement strategies for the Company's Eagle Point, Rowland, and White Star tungsten projects in the United States, as well as its drill-permitted polymetallic Western Star Project in British Columbia.

The updated document highlights the significant transformation undertaken by Western Star 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 on three past-producing projects in established U.S. mining jurisdictions, each offering distinct exploration opportunities and contributing to Western Star's growing pipeline of potential drill targets.

At the Eagle Point project in New Mexico, Western Star holds a 100% interest. This past-producing site features eight historically mapped skarn bodies along approximately 1,500–2,000 feet of prospective granite-limestone contact. Historical production from 1943–44 involved shipping approximately 1,800 tons of scheelite-bearing material to the U.S. Government stockpile. Surface sampling by the U.S. Geological Survey and the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources yielded results such as sample LH705, a scheelite-rich outcrop sample, which returned 27.6% WO₃ and 0.98% Mo. In 1955, the U.S. Government prepared and recommended an exploration contract that would have funded 75% of an exploration program involving shaft sinking and diamond drilling. Historical estimates for Eagle Point are not NI 43-101 compliant and are not currently treated by the Company as mineral resources or reserves.

In Nevada, the Rowland project is a past-producing tungsten site where Western Star's 2026 exploration program yielded 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 key exploration targets within an approximately one-kilometre geochemical corridor.

Adjacent to Rowland is the White Star project, also in Nevada, where Western Star holds a 100% interest. 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 known historical workings. Together, Rowland and White Star constitute the Company’s 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 expected to be submitted shortly.

Western Star's forward strategy includes the systematic advancement of the Eagle Point Tungsten Project. The Company intends to utilize modern mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and, subject to permitting and financing, drilling to test historically identified tungsten mineralization and its extensions. The objective is to generate sufficient modern geological and analytical data to determine if Eagle Point can support a maiden mineral resource estimate in accordance with National Instrument 43-101.

The Company believes tungsten's importance to defense, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, and technology makes secure critical-mineral supply chains a focus of U.S. strategic policy. Western Star plans to continue assessing available U.S. federal programs that may support domestic critical-mineral exploration and development, including potential grant and cost-sharing opportunities. As previously disclosed, the Company has submitted an application in response to a U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium solicitation related to strategic critical minerals. The historical precedent at Eagle Point is notable, with the U.S. Government having prepared and recommended an exploration contract in 1955 that would have funded 75% of a proposed exploration program, though this contract never became effective.

Blake Morgan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Western Star Resources, stated, “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.”

Morgan added, “Nevada gives us a second major exploration front. Rowland and White Star now provide us with a substantial district-scale target pipeline, and the integration of modern geophysics, geochemistry and mapping is allowing us to increasingly focus our exploration dollars on the highest-priority areas. The strategy from here is disciplined: define the targets, obtain the necessary approvals, drill the best opportunities and, where the results and data support it, advance our projects toward compliant mineral resources.”

The updated investor presentation also highlights Western Star's 100%-owned Western Star Property in British Columbia, which is permitted for a multi-pad drill program and hosts twelve documented MINFILE mineral occurrences. This property provides additional exposure to gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc mineralization, while the Company's primary corporate focus remains the advancement of its U.S. tungsten portfolio.

Source: Western Star Resources Inc.