Sample highlights from the new area include 9.7 g/t gold and 1.1 g/t silver; 2.81 g/t gold; 2.69 g/t gold; and 2.24 g/t gold.

The company based its decision on positive results from past explorations programs.

A total of 25 holes for 818 m on seven targets were completed, all located on historical copper showings.

Zen’s partner, the University of Guelph, filed a patent for the electrochemical exfoliation process that allows for the production of graphene oxide.

The 8,148-hectare Belvais project sits on prospective Archean stratigraphy of felsic through to mafic volcanic rocks.

If copper prices remained around $2.90 per pound, that could make it economic for mothballed copper mines in British Columbia to restart.

The lithium enrichment was discovered in the Nisku aquifer, and the company says sampled lithium grades ranged up to 75 milligrams per litre (mg/L).

Resources at the Kombat copper project in Namibia have increased by over 450%.