Western Star Resources (CSE:WSR) CEO Blake Morgan says the company received the results it was hoping for from a district-scale three-dimensional geophysical inversion across its two projects in Nevada, US.
At the Rowland and White Star tungsten projects, modelling defined buried and partially exposed intrusive bodies across the district. Modelling also refined the fault network that is interpreted to be involved in channelling mineralising fluid into the tungsten skarn system.
The highest grade rock chip returned 4.02% tungsten oxide at Rowland and 3% tungsten oxide at White Star — both of which correspond spatially with the contact between the modelled intrusive rocks and the carbonate host.
Western Star notes the modelled intrusive framework extends well beyond the limits of the mapped outcrop, opening substantial new search space across both properties.
Morgan says that this is the tungsten skarn recipe, and the company can now see it in three dimensions across the whole district.
“Better still, the modelled intrusives are more extensive than has been previously mapped, which means the ground that has produced our best rock chips continues into untested areas,” the CEO adds.
“Soil geochemistry from phase two is due back shortly and we can use these in our drill hole planning.”
The phase two soil geochemistry program will be integrated with the inversion model, the structural framework, and the geological mapping to define and rank drill targets.
Follow-up field mapping and sampling will also be conducted to refine the geological model, and the resulting targets will be ranked to support the drill program and the permitting process that is now underway.
Western Star is a mineral explorer focused on acquiring, exploring, and advancing mineral properties, with a growing strategic emphasis on tungsten and critical minerals in the US.
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