Mr. Blake Morgan reports

WESTERN STAR RESOURCES REPORTS PHASE 1 SOIL SAMPLING FROM THE PAST PRODUCING ROWLAND TUNGSTEN PROPERTY, HIGHLIGHT OF A 0.14% WO3-IN-SOIL RESULT

Western Star Resources Inc. has released results of the phase 1 soil geochemistry program at the past-producing Rowland tungsten property in Elko county, Nevada, United States. The results confirmed a coherent, multielement tungsten-skarn signature in soil over an approximately one-kilometre structural corridor, headlined by a peak of 1,425 parts per million tungsten trioxide (WO3) in soil in the area of the recently rediscovered historical workings. On the strength of these results, the company is mobilizing an expanded soil program to commence shortly.

Highlights from phase 1 soil geochemistry:

• Exceptional peak tungsten in soil: 0.14 per cent WO3 (1,130 ppm W) returned directly over a recently rediscovered zone of historical workings;
• Rowland Main confirmed by soil: soils over the main historical workings returned up to 517 ppm and 504 ppm WO3;
• Soils coincide with interpreted skarn contacts: the strongest soil anomalies sit on magnetic gradients (lithological/structural contacts) imaged by the company's UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) magnetic survey;
• Enhanced understanding of skarn contacts: anomalous geochemistry coincident with magnetic gradients will be used to map the prospective skarn horizon to establish a new search space for the expanded soil program;
• Multiple critical metals: tungsten is accompanied by coincident diagnostic tungsten-copper-molybdenum-bismuth (-beryllium) skarn metals -- copper (up to 1,185 ppm), molybdenum (up to 35 ppm), bismuth (up to 5.2 ppm) and beryllium (up to 4.56 ppm);
• Targeting model validated; program expanding immediately: anomalous soil over both the historical workings and Rowland Main confirms soil geochemistry as an effective, low-cost vector to prospective skarn-contact zones, and an expanded multistage soil campaign will begin shortly to grow these zones toward drill target definition.

Blake Morgan, president and chief executive officer of Western Star, commented: "As far as we are aware, this is the first-ever soil geochemistry survey completed by a public company at Rowland, and returning a high value result of 0.14 per cent WO3 is an excellent start. The anomalous soil results provide a baseline to interpret the expanded soil results once they arrive. Crucially, the soils line up with the contacts our UAV magnetics are mapping, which is the strongest possible vector for where to look next. Expanding the soil program immediately to extend the known zones around Rowland Main and the historical workings and then into untested ground where an entirely new discovery could be made is an important step in converting these anomalies into ranked drill targets."

Exceptional, district-scale tungsten opportunity evolving

The phase 1 soil grid comprised 93 soil samples at nominal 25-metre spacing over the central Rowland workings corridor. Given the property has never been systematically explored in the way Western Star operates, it was important to undertake an orientation sampling program to ensure the company's main phase of exploration is correctly designed. The encouraging results have shown tungsten is strongly and discretely anomalous against the baseline background values (determined to be approximately two ppm WO3). Multiple samples exceed 10 ppm, five above 50 ppm and three above 100 ppm W. The anomalous samples are interpreted to reflect a tungsten-skarn system developed along a carbonate-intrusive contact with potentially mineralized northeast-southwest structures. The peak value (1,425 ppm WO3 at X-3) is in the central zone, while a second strong cluster (up to 517 ppm WO3) overlies the Rowland Main workings to the south. Copper, molybdenum, bismuth and beryllium are elevated in the same samples, confirming a coherent polymetallic skarn signature. Two large target areas have emerged and will be systematically explored by Western Star, along with property-wide exploratory sampling.

Soils confirm the skarn model -- and the geophysics

Rowland is interpreted as a reduced tungsten (tungsten-copper-molybdenum-bismuth) skarn, in which tungsten-bearing fluids exsolved from a Cretaceous granite reacted with Ordovician-Cambrian limestone (unit OCtd) to deposit scheelite-bearing skarn at and near the intrusive contact. The phase 1 soils sit directly on this carbonate host, and the strongest anomalies fall on magnetic gradients (geological and structural contacts as imaged by the company's UAV magnetic survey). The coincidence of high-grade, polymetallic-metal soils with these interpreted contacts over an approximately one-kilometre area is a powerful exploration vector. Table 1 shows the elevated tungsten-copper-molybdenum-bismuth values.

Because the soils respond strongly over both the Central zone of historical workings and Rowland Main, the areas of known mineralization, the company has high confidence that soil geochemistry reliably highlights the prospective skarn-contact zones and can be used aggressively both to extend the known zones and to search for new ones.

Next steps to expand soil anomalism

Western Star is mobilizing an expanded soil sampling program, to commence imminently, designed to trace the prospective skarn contacts outward from the known workings and potential mineralization controlling faults. Results from the expanded program will be integrated with the UAV magnetic survey and field mapping to generate and prioritize drill targets for a maiden drill program at Rowland.

Sampling and analytical procedures

Soil samples were submitted to ALS, an accredited laboratory independent of the company, and analyzed by method ME-MS41L (aqua regia digest, 51-element ICP-MS) with gold by the same package. Tungsten values are reported in ppm; WO3 is calculated as W multiplied by 1.2611. Anomaly thresholds were defined on log-transformed data using percentile (P90/P95/P98) and median-absolute-deviation criteria; values below detection were handled at half the detection limit for statistical work.

Qualified person

The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Jasper Mowatt, MIMMM (membership No. 0486653), MAusIMM (membership No. 3178851), a consultant to the company and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

Investor awareness agreement

Western Star announces that the company has entered into an investor awareness agreement with Market Equities Ltd. (MEL) dated July 6, 2026, whereby the services to be provided by MEL will include branding services, communications, advisory and general consulting services.

The consulting services to be provided by MEL shall include, but are not limited to, SEO (search engine optimization), digital media campaigns for branding, media consulting, general business development, multimedia services and project management. MEL will also write and distribute weekly ticker tag articles highlighting the company in sector-based analysis as well as news-based tags when the company has a new event, as outlined in the agreement, for a fee of $100,000 (U.S.) for a term of two months upon acceptance by the Canadian Securities Exchange. The agreement may be renewed by the company and MEL at the end of the initial term.

MEL and the company are not related parties and operate at arm's length. Neither MEL nor its principals have any interest in the company's securities, directly or indirectly, or any right or intent to acquire such an interest.

About Western Star Resources Inc.

Western Star Resources is an emerging junior mineral exploration company focused on revitalizing North America's tungsten supply. The company is advancing its entry into the U.S. market through past-producing tungsten assets in historically important mining districts and is positioning itself to participate in the growing need for secure domestic critical mineral supply.

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