Key Highlights
- Western Star Resources completed a 4.9 km² drone magnetic survey at its Eagle Point tungsten project in New Mexico.
- The company interpreted a granite–limestone contact extending about 3 kilometres beneath shallow cover.
- Western Star positioned a planned 17-hole, ~1,850-metre drill program along the interpreted contact.
Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) reported results from a high-resolution drone magnetic survey at its 100%-owned Eagle Point Tungsten Project in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, which it plans to use to refine targets for a proposed drill program.
The company said the survey mapped the contact between intrusive granite and Horquilla Limestone, which it describes as the prospective horizon for tungsten-bearing skarn mineralization. Western Star said the interpreted contact extends north-west from historical workings across the western part of the property where it is concealed beneath talus and shallow cover.
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According to the release, the drone magnetic survey covered about 4.9 km² over the southern and western parts of the Eagle Point claims. Processing and interpretation were completed by Warren Hughes, P.Geo., of East Coast Consulting.
Western Star said the magnetic data show a broad, arcuate magnetic high interpreted as granite, bounded to the north-west by a sharp gradient against a magnetically quiet domain interpreted as Horquilla Limestone. The company interprets the gradient between the two domains as approximating the granite–limestone contact that hosts skarn mineralization.
Based on that interpretation, Western Star traced the contact for about 3 kilometres through the surveyed area, including across the western part of the property where it projects beneath shallow cover and cannot be mapped at surface. The company also noted that historical trenches in the western part of the property (Trenches 4 to 7 and 9) lie in the same contact zone and have not previously been followed up with modern exploration.
Western Star said the historical Eagle Point workings and a principal skarn exposure it sampled in August 2026 sit at the southern end of the interpreted contact, linking the magnetic framework to known scheelite mineralization on the property.
The company said it has incorporated the magnetic interpretation into its three-dimensional Leapfrog Geo model to support a planned 17-hole drill program totalling about 1,850 metres (6,070 feet). It said six holes are designed to step out up to about 400 metres north-west of the historical workings to test the contact beneath talus cover.
Western Star said assay results from 23 samples collected in August 2026 are pending at ALS Geochemistry in Tucson, Arizona, and will be integrated with the magnetic interpretation, mapping and the three-dimensional model to finalize drill targets. The company also said it plans to extend mapping and sampling north-west along the interpreted contact while advancing drilling logistics and applicable permitting for the proposed program.
The release said the scientific and technical information was reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MIMMM, MAusIMM, a consultant to the company and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101, and that he is not independent of Western Star.
Western Star also cautioned that magnetic surveys measure rock properties and do not detect tungsten, noting that scheelite is not magnetic and that the interpretations described require confirmation by drilling.
The original press release is available on stockhouse.com
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