A Pentagon Tungsten Rule Is Seven Weeks Out, and a New Mexico Explorer Has Its Drill Plan

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USA News Group News Commentary - On January 1, 2027, a Pentagon contract clause starts reaching all the way back to ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — USA News Group News Commentary - On January 1, 2027, a Pentagon contract clause starts reaching all the way back to the mine. From that date, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement clause 252.225-7052 extends its restriction on tungsten metal powder and tungsten heavy alloy from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea to include the mining or production of tungsten ore or feedstock, and the U.S. Geological Survey says tungsten has not been mined commercially in the United States since 2015.

The supply side has a lot of ground to cover. In its Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, the USGS shows zero U.S. tungsten mine production for each year from 2021 through 2025 (2025 estimated), lists China as the world’s leading producer of tungsten concentrates, and notes that China implemented new export controls on selected tungsten items in February 2025. The same report says multiple projects received awards under Defense Production Act Title III.

Western Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) (OTC: WSRIF) (FRA: 4K2) has completed a high-resolution drone magnetic survey covering approximately 4.9 square kilometres over the southern and western parts of its 100%-owned Eagle Point Tungsten Project in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Tungsten skarns form where a granitic intrusion is emplaced into a carbonate sequence, so the contact between the intrusion and the carbonate host is the primary exploration target. At Eagle Point, the company’s August 2026 mapping identified scheelite-bearing skarn developed along the contact between intrusive granite and Horquilla limestone, but extensive talus cover obscures much of it.

Mapping that contact beneath cover was the principal objective of the survey. A broad, arcuate magnetic high is interpreted to reflect the granite, bounded to the north-west by a sharp gradient against a magnetically quiet domain that corresponds to the limestone.

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