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Washington Decided Copper Is a National Priority. Zeus Is Looking for It on US Soil.
Wall Street Reports Research Team
October 31, 20268 min read
There is a sentence from Goldman Sachs that has become shorthand for an entire investment thesis: “Copper is the new oil.”1 The bank has argued that the metal sits on a path that could carry it toward 15,000 dollars per tonne, and that the world faces a long-term copper supply gap measured in millions of tonnes by 2030.1 The reason is structural. Electrification, grid expansion, data centers, and the broader energy transition all run on copper, and new copper mines take many years to permit and build.1
Investment Highlights
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The macro:
Goldman Sachs has framed copper as structurally short, pointing to a long-term supply gap and a potential path toward 15,000 dollars per tonne.1
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The policy:
US executive action in 2025 prioritized domestic production of critical minerals, copper included, and tariff measures have pushed toward favoring American supply.2
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All-American ground:
Zeus’s projects are located entirely in Idaho and Nevada, two established US mining states.3
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The antimony kicker:
at its Selway property, Zeus has sampled gold, silver, and up to 135 parts per million antimony, a metal designated as a critical mineral by the United States.4
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Silver too:
silver demand reached record levels in recent years against constrained supply, adding a second precious-and-industrial metal to the thesis.5
For a long time that was a market story. In 2025 it became a policy story. The United States moved to treat domestic copper and other critical minerals as a matter of national priority, through executive action aimed at accelerating American mineral production and through tariff measures designed to favor domestic supply.2
Zeus North America Mining Corp. (CSE: ZEUS | OTCQB: ZUUZF | FSE: O92) is a small-cap exploration company whose entire property base sits inside the country making that bet. Its copper, silver, gold, and antimony targets are in Idaho and Nevada, on US soil.3
The supply gap is not a forecast, it is arithmetic
Strip away the slogans and the copper problem is simple to state. Demand is rising on the back of electrification and grid buildout, while the supply side is constrained by the long lead times, permitting hurdles, and falling grades that define modern copper mining.1
Goldman Sachs has put numbers on it, describing a long-term supply gap on the order of millions of tonnes by 2030 and characterizing copper as essential to any net-zero pathway.1 You do not have to accept any single price prediction to accept the direction. When a metal is structurally short and strategically important at the same time, the value of bringing new pounds into production, especially domestic pounds, goes up.
Copper became policy
For decades, copper was treated as an ordinary industrial commodity, sourced globally and priced on open markets. That assumption is being revised.
In 2025, the United States moved to accelerate domestic production of critical minerals, with copper explicitly in scope, and pursued tariff measures intended to strengthen American supply against import dependence.2 Zeus, for its part, publicly welcomed the executive action to accelerate critical-mineral production, including copper, in the United States.6
The implication for explorers is direct. A copper discovery located inside the United States is not just a geological asset, it is a strategic one. Domestic supply is exactly what the policy is trying to create, and a permitted, drill-ready copper project on US ground is aligned with that goal rather than working against it.
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Why “American copper” is the right phrase
The distinction between copper and American copper is doing real work here. A large share of the world’s copper comes from a handful of countries, some of them carrying meaningful political, permitting, or supply-chain risk. The point of the US critical-minerals push is to reduce reliance on those sources by building production at home.2
Zeus is positioned on the right side of that line. Every one of its projects is in the United States, in Idaho and Nevada, two states with deep mining histories and established regulatory frameworks.3 The flagship Cuddy Mountain copper target sits in the western Idaho district where a confirmed porphyry discovery has already drawn major-company capital.3 This is domestic copper exploration, in the jurisdictions the policy is designed to favor.
A copper discovery located inside the United States is no longer just a geological asset. It is a strategic one.
The antimony kicker at Selway
Copper is the headline, but Zeus carries a quieter critical-minerals angle that is easy to miss.
At its Selway property in Idaho, Zeus has reported rock grab samples returning gold and silver alongside up to 135 parts per million antimony.4 Antimony rarely makes consumer headlines, but it is a designated critical mineral, used in defense applications, flame retardants, and energy storage, and its supply is concentrated in a small number of foreign producers. Idaho is already central to the US antimony conversation through Perpetua Resources’ Stibnite project, one of the highest-profile domestic antimony stories in the country.7
Zeus has not defined a resource at Selway, and these are early surface samples, not a deposit. But the presence of antimony alongside gold and silver gives the company a second toehold in the critical-minerals theme, on a separate property from the flagship.
Silver, the second metal
The thesis does not rest on copper alone. Zeus’s properties carry meaningful silver, and silver has its own supply-demand story.
Global silver demand reached record levels in recent years, driven by both industrial uses, including solar, and investment demand, while supply has struggled to keep pace, producing structural market deficits.5 Cuddy Mountain was originally staked for its historic high-grade silver workings, and Zeus’s Great Western property has returned very high-grade historic and recent silver values.3 A copper-led story with a real silver component sits in two strong markets at once.
What to watch, and what to weigh
The macro tailwind is genuine, but it does not change the stage Zeus is at, and that is where the risk lives.
Zeus is an early-stage explorer with no mineral resource on any of its properties, no maiden drill results yet at Cuddy Mountain, and an ongoing need for capital to fund its programs.3 Strong copper prices, supportive policy, and a critical-minerals designation improve the environment, but they do not put metal in the ground or guarantee that drilling will find it. Commodity prices and government policy can also move against an explorer as easily as for it. The historic and third-party figures referenced here, including any neighboring discoveries, are not indicative of results on Zeus’s own properties.3
What the policy backdrop does is sharpen the prize. If the United States is determined to build domestic copper supply, and is willing to use executive action and tariffs to do it, then a drill-ready US copper project becomes more strategically valuable, not less. Zeus is holding exactly that kind of ground, with the drill still ahead of it.
The Drill Is the Catalyst, and It Has Not Turned Yet
Get the full investor presentation on Zeus North America Mining Corp., the micro-cap holding permitted, drill-ready copper ground next door to a major-backed discovery in Idaho. Note: Zeus has no mineral resource and has not released maiden drill results.
Zeus North America Mining Corp.
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Sources
- Copper is the New Oil (Goldman Sachs Research)
- Zeus North American Mining Corp. Strengthens Commitment to U.S. Copper Supply Amid Potential Tariff Action (FinancialContent)
- Zeus North America Mining Corp. (company website)
- Zeus North America Mining Corp. samples gold, silver and antimony at the Selway Property, Idaho (company press releases)
- Total Global Silver Demand Posts Record High (The Silver Institute)
- Zeus North America Mining Corp. Cuddy Mountain exploration updates (Junior Mining Network)
- Is Idaho Emerging as the Next Big Copper District? (Streetwise Reports)
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