Tungsten Is the Critical Mineral Canada Owns — and One Junior Just Financed Its Way Into the Reshoring Trade

Western Star Resources Inc. announced a non-brokered flow-through financing of $500,000, a 12-month European investor relations mandate valued at €200,000, and submitted an application to the U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium for tungsten, positioning itself to develop the past-producing Rowland Tungsten Property in Nevada ahead of a January 1, 2027 federal procurement rule that will bar Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean tungsten from U.S. defense applications.