Another of Nevada's old tungsten workings is being worked back toward a drill. Western Star Resources, which already reported soil results at its White Star tungsten property earlier this month, has now set out the first drill plan for its separate Rowland property in Elko County.
- Two priority areas: Rowland Main and Northern Zone B, both where 2026 soil sampling found tungsten anomalies over historical workings.
- The planned program is six holes totalling about 3,050 feet (930 metres) from four pads, all sited on existing disturbance. Collar locations are preliminary and still subject to field checks and permitting.
- At Rowland Main, four holes totalling 1,850 feet test ground beside the historic open cut, where surface samples returned up to 4.02% WO3, plus the bedrock source of the season's strongest soil sample at 4,240 ppm tungsten (0.53% WO3).
- At Northern Zone B, two holes totalling 1,200 feet test beneath old shafts and an ore chute, where rock chips ran 0.35% to 1.22% WO3, aiming at the roof of a modelled magnetic body about 165 metres down.
- A plan of operations is being prepared for the U.S. Forest Service district that covers the ground, alongside a state reclamation permit. No drilling date was given.
How the targets were built
The company says the collars come from layering four datasets gathered this season: the soil grid, a three-dimensional inversion of a drone magnetic survey, the locations of historical workings confirmed on the ground, and rock-chip and channel assays. Each hole is aimed to cross a modelled magnetic contact at a high angle where a soil anomaly sits above it, or to pass under known workings.
That layering is sensible exploration practice, and the release is unusually clear about its limits. Soil values show where tungsten has dispersed at surface; they are not grades in rock. Rock-chip and float samples are selective by nature. And a magnetic inversion is a model — the modelled contacts may sit somewhere different from where drilling actually finds them.
What to watch
Rowland has no current mineral resource in this disclosure, and no new assays were reported — the grades cited are surface samples disclosed earlier. The near-term milestones are procedural: the forest service submission, the reclamation permit, and a finalised program. Only after that does the geological question get asked, with six relatively shallow holes.
The broader context is the one Pulse has tracked all autumn: tungsten is a defence-critical metal with a heavily concentrated overseas supply chain, and past-producing U.S. districts in Nevada and New Mexico are being re-examined with modern geophysics for the first time. Western Star says it is advancing several such Nevada and New Mexico assets; Rowland is now the second of them to reach a defined drill plan this season.