Western Star Resources Company (Private search engine: WSR) (Over-the-counter: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) (the “Company” or “Western Star”) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Phase 1 exploration at the 100% owned and formerly producing Rowland Tungsten Property in Elko County, Nevada, USA.
The first phase program includes a high-resolution magnetic geophysical survey using a drone, focused soil geochemistry, rock chip sampling, and field examination of historical works. Samples have been sent to the laboratory and express processing has been requested in order to return analysis results as quickly as possible.
The Phase 1 field program has significantly increased the company’s understanding of the property. Four separate areas of extensive historic tungsten-bearing workings have been confirmed on Earth, all hosted within the same skarn-style geological setting as the originally targeted Rowland workings.
Highlights:
- The first phase of exploration was successfully completed at the Roland Tungsten property, which includes a facility-wide UAV magnetic survey, focused soil geochemistry, rock chip sampling, and LiDAR targeted ground investigation.
- Four separate areas of extensive historical tungsten-bearing workings have been confirmed on Earth; The northern region A and B, the central region, and the original Roland region.
- Northern Area B: The most important historical developments identified on the property. Field crews confirmed the presence of dilapidated wooden infrastructure consistent with a historic ore chute, and several shafts that had been taken out of service.
- Rowland Mine: Numerous additional workings, trenches and surface disturbances have been confirmed on the ground, with widespread UV fluorescence consistent with extensive scheelite mineralisation.
- The drone’s magnetic survey has been completed and is currently being processed, with initial results expected soon.
- Soil sampling has been completed across the main Rowland area, with reconnaissance soil lines extended across the northern areas (A and B).
- The rock samples and initial round of soil samples were quickly sent to the lab; The results of the examination are expected to appear in the coming weeks.
said Blake Morgan, CEO and President of Western Star “Roland came out of Phase 1 looking considerably more forward looking than the historical record suggests. We were expecting one former production area; the field crew returned with multiple areas of extensive historical development, including a previously undocumented central area with processing infrastructure, shafts, and 600 to 700 meters of trenches. We adjusted the software in real time to focus on what was already on the ground, and hurriedly submitted the first round of rock and soil samples so we could get the tests done as quickly as possible.” Possible, and the team can now move into White Star ownership where we hope to replicate the success we had at Rowland.
Summary of the field program for the first phase
The Phase 1 field program at the Rowland Tungsten property is designed to provide an integrated package of geophysical, geochemical and field mapping data to support the drill targeting and drilling permitting process.
This phase confirmed the presence of multiple areas of extensive historic tungsten-bearing workings throughout the property. All areas are hosted within the same metamorphic contact tungsten skarn setting as Roland’s originally targeted works, and all display far greater historical development than recorded in publicly available historical records.
Northern regions
North A is the region that drove the company’s previous expansion of the Roland claims portfolio, and Phase 1 field results validate this decision. Office work defined the area as historically designated as a single ad. Field crews have confirmed the location of the old road, which has been partially filled in/cleared. However, the surrounding landfills and surface piles are much larger and more extensive than the historical record indicates, indicating that a significant amount of historical material was extracted and processed from this area.
Figure 1: Map showing the locations of the two historic business districts in the Northern District.
The Northern Area B is the most important historical development confirmed during the first phase and not documented in publicly available historical production records. The area was first identified as a target during the company’s pre-mobilization LiDAR review, which marked surface features consistent with historic workings including several enlarged depressions suspected to be decommissioned vertical shafts. Fieldwork has now confirmed the presence of the suspected plumes, with 3 to 4 of them observed in the field.
Field crews also documented dilapidated timber infrastructure consistent with the historic ore chute (Figure 2), indicating that this area was a historic processing site for the broader Rowland operation. In addition, a series of northeast-southwest oriented trenches has been confirmed across the area, testing approximately 600 to 700 meters of strike length.
Figure 2: The wooden foundation of a suspected ore chute indicates that this area may have been the historic Rowland processing facility. Suspicious columns are located on the slope of this structure
Roland’s main area
The Rowland District is the original target area of the property and the historic production area for which the Rowland property was purchased. Fieldwork in the first phase confirmed numerous additional workings, trenches and surface disturbances up and down the slope around previously known features, materially increasing the stock of confirmed historic works within the area.
Figure 3: The central area and the main Rowland area showing the soil/grid lines of the first phase and the extent of the historic works.
Material from the Rowland area showed broad UV fluorescence consistent with scheelite mineralization, with the tungsten content further confirmed by portable XRF (pXRF) scanning. Figure 4 shows the typical response when UV light is directed at outcrops and landfills. A strong fluorescent response was observed in most materials, consistent with widespread scheelite mineralization. In order to characterize the distribution and grade across the open cut, a series of channel samples were taken across various lithologies and contacts. Figure 5 shows the locations of these samples.
Figure 4: Examples of open Roland plots showing broad fluorescence of skelite in both outcrop (bottom image) and flotation/waste (top image). The left picture is under UV light, the right picture is under normal light.
Figure 5: Rowland Open Cut panoramic image showing 1 m and 30 cm channel sample locations
Drone magnetic surveying
The Rowland Tungsten Phase 1 UAV magnetic survey represents the first modern, high-resolution geophysical dataset acquired across the property.
The data are currently being reviewed, processed and interpreted, and preliminary results are expected to be delivered soon.
Burst assays, phase II, and targeting drilling
With the completion of the Phase 1 field work, the company’s near-term priorities are to receive and integrate the results of the Phase 1 investigations, finalize the Phase 2 program, and move the project toward targeting drilling and permitting drilling. Rock samples and an initial round of Phase 1 soil samples were quickly sent to the laboratory, and the company expects to receive the first batch of screening results in the coming weeks.
The company will provide further updates as Phase 1 assay results, geophysical interpretation products, and Phase 2 program plan become available.
Qualified person
The scientific and technical information contained in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MIMMM (Membership No. 0486653) and MAusIMM (Membership No. 3178851), a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 – Standards for Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Western Star Resources
Western Star Resources is a mineral exploration and development company. The Company’s goal is to increase shareholder value by developing exploration properties using cost-effective exploration practices, acquiring more exploration properties and seeking partnerships either through a joint venture or sale with industry leaders. The Company currently owns nine contiguous unsurveyed mineral claims totaling 4,740 hectares, located within the Revelstoke mining division of British Columbia. The Western Star real estate cluster is located about 50 kilometers southeast of Revelstoke, British Columbia, and about 10 kilometers north of the abandoned community of Camborne.
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CEO and Director
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