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and third tranches follow upon the dates provided above. The Unit Option consists of Units of our securities where each Unit (priced at
$250.00 each) is comprised of (i) a certain number of shares of Common Stock determined by dividing $250.00 (the price of one Unit) by
the average of the high and low sale prices of the Company’s publicly traded common stock as reported on the OTCQX on the Unit Purchase
Date and (ii) Common Stock purchase warrants to purchase an additional five hundred (500) shares of Common Stock at a per share exercise
price of $0.05. The participant’s Plan account will be credited with the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock and
Warrants that are acquired under the Units purchased. Each warrant affords the participant the opportunity to purchase one share of our
Common Stock at a warrant exercise price of $0.05. The warrant shall have the Company notation of “ZNWAV” under the first
tranche, “ZNWAW” under the second tranche and “ZNWAX” under the third tranche. The warrants will not be registered
for trading on the OTCQX or any other stock market or trading market. 42 Plan participants, who enroll into the Unit Program
with the purchase of at least one Unit and enroll in the separate Automatic Monthly Investments (“AMI”) program at a minimum
of $50.00 per month, will receive an additional fifty (50) warrants at an exercise price of $0.05 during this Unit Option Program. The
fifty (50) additional warrants are for enrolling into the AMI program and shall have the Company notation of “ZNWAY.” Existing
subscribers to the AMI are entitled to the additional fifty (50) warrants, if they purchase at least one (1) Unit during the Unit program.
Plan participants, who enroll in the AMI at a minimum of $100 per month, will receive one hundred (100) ZNWAY warrants. Plan participants,
who enroll in the AMI at a minimum of $250 per month, will receive two hundred and fifty (250) ZNWAY warrants. Plan participants, who
enroll in the AMI at a minimum of $500 per month, will receive five hundred (500) ZNWAY warrants. The AMI program requires 90 days of
participation to receive the ZNWAY warrants. Existing AMI participants are entitled to participant in this monthly program by increasing
their monthly amount above the minimum $50.00 per month. The ZNWAV warrants will become exercisable on March
31, 2023 and continue to be exercisable through June 28, 2023 at a per share exercise price of $0.05. The ZNWAW warrants will become exercisable
on April 14, 2023 and continue to be exercisable through July 13, 2023 at a per share exercise price of $0.05. The ZNWAX warrants will
become exercisable on May 2, 2023 and continue to be exercisable through July 31, 2023 at a per share exercise price of $0.05. The ZNWAY
warrants will become exercisable on June 12, 2023 and continue to be exercisable through September 10, 2023 at a per share exercise price
of $0.05. During 2022, two participants who participated in that aspect of the
DSPP called “Request For Waiver” contributed approximately 77% of the cash raised through the DSPP. During 2021, two participants
who participated in the “Request for Waiver” aspect of the DSPP contributed approximately 67% of the cash raised through the
DSPP. The company raised approximately
$738,000 from the period January 1, 2023 through March 23, 2023, under the DSPP program. For the years ended December
31, 2022, and 2021, approximately $19,129,000, and $26,219,000 were raised under the DSPP program, respectively. The warrants represented by
the company notation ZNWAA are tradeable on the OTCQX market under the symbol ZNOGW. However, all of the other warrants characterized
above, in the table below, and throughout this Form 10-K, are not tradeable and are used internally for classification and accounting
purposes only. 2018 Subscription Rights Offering On April 2, 2018, the Company
announced an offering (“2018 Subscription Rights Offering”) through American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (the
“Subscription Agent”), at no cost to the shareholders, of non-transferable Subscription Rights (each “Right” and
collectively, the “Rights”) to purchase its securities to persons who owned shares of our Common Stock on April 13, 2018 (“the
Record Date”). Pursuant to the 2018 Subscription Rights Offering, each holder of shares of common stock on the Record Date received
non-transferable Subscription Rights, with each Right comprised of one share of the Company Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share (the “Common Stock”) and one Common Stock Purchase Warrant to purchase an additional one share of Common Stock. Each
Right could be exercised or subscribed at a per Right subscription price of $5.00. Each Warrant affords the investor the opportunity
to purchase one share of the Company Common Stock at a warrant exercise price of $3.00. The warrant is referred to as “ZNWAI.” The warrants became exercisable
on June 29, 2018 and continued to be exercisable through June 29, 2020 at a per share exercise price of $3.00, after the Company, on December
4, 2018, extended the termination date of the Warrant by one (1) year from the expiration date of June 29, 2019 to June 29, 2020. On May 29, 2019, the Company
extended the termination date of the ZNWAI Warrant by one (1) year from the expiration date of June 29, 2020 to June 29, 2021. 43 On September 15, 2020, the
Company extended the termination date of the ZNWAI Warrant by two (2) years from the expiration date of June 29, 2021 to June 29, 2023.
Zion considers this warrant as permanent equity per ASC 815-40-35-2. As such, there is no value assigned to this extension. Each shareholder received
.10 (one tenth) of a Subscription Right (i.e. one Subscription Right for each 10 shares owned) for each share of the Company’s Common
Stock owned on the Record Date. The 2018 Subscription Rights
Offering terminated on May 31, 2018. The Company raised net proceeds of approximately $3,038,000, from the subscription of Rights, after
deducting fees and expenses of $243,000 incurred in connection with the rights offering. Warrants Table The warrant activity and balances
for the year 2021 are shown in the table below : Warrants Exercise Price Warrant Termination Date Outstanding Balance, 12/31/2020 Warrants Issued Warrants Exercised Warrants Expired Outstanding Balance, 12/31/2021 ZNWAA $ 2.00 01/31/2023 1,498,804 - - - 1,498,804 ZNWAD $ 1.00 05/02/2023 243,853 - - - 243,853 ZNWAE $ 1.00 05/01/2023 2,144,099 - - - 2,144,099 ZNWAF $ 1.00 08/14/2023 359,435 - - - 359,435 ZNWAG $ 1.00 01/08/2023 240,068 - - - 240,068 ZNWAH $ 5.00 04/19/2023 372,400 - - - 372,400 ZNWAI $ 3.00 06/29/2023 640,730 - - - 640,730 ZNWAJ $ 1.00 10/29/2023 545,900 - - - 545,900 ZNWAK $ 0.01 02/25/2023 437,875 - (6,220 ) - 431,655 ZNWAL $ 2.00 08/26/2023 517,875 - - - 517,875 ZNWAM $ 1.00 07/15/2022 - 4,376,000 - - 4,376,000 ZNWAN $ 1.00 07/15/2022 - 267,785 (125 ) - 267,660 ZNWAO $ 0.25 06/12/2023 - 190,480 (15,510 ) - 174,970 ZNWAP $ 0.25 06/02/2022 - 1,639,916 (1,200,000 ) - 439,916 ZNWAR $ 0.25 06/23/2022 - 1,020,000 - - 1,020,000 Outstanding warrants 7,001,039 7,494,181 (1,221,855 ) - 13,273,365 Changes during 2022 t Warrants Exercise Price Warrant Termination Date Outstanding Balance, 12/31/2021 Warrants Issued Warrants Exercised Warrants Expired Outstanding Balance, 12/31/2022 ZNWAA $ 2.00 01/31/2024 1,498,804 - - - 1,498,804 ZNWAD $ 1.00 05/02/2023 243,853 - - - 243,853 ZNWAE $ 1.00 05/01/2023 2,144,099 - - - 2,144,099 ZNWAF $ 1.00 08/14/2023 359,435 - - - 359,435 ZNWAG $ 0.25 01/08/2024 240,068 - - - 240,068 ZNWAH $ 5.00 04/19/2023 372,400 - - - 372,400 ZNWAI $ 3.00 06/29/2023 640,710 - - 640,710 ZNWAJ $ 1.00 10/29/2023 545,900 - - - 545,900 ZNWAK $ 0.01 02/25/2023 431,675 - (7,450 ) - 424,225 ZNWAL $ 2.00 08/26/2023 517,875 - - - 517,875 ZNWAM $ 0.05 07/15/2023 4,376,000 - - - 4,376,000 ZNWAN $ 1.00 05/16/2023 267,660 100 - - 267,760 ZNWAO $ 0.25 06/12/2023 174,970 - (310 ) - 174,660 ZNWAQ $ 0.05 07/06/2023 - 23,428,348 - - 23,428,348 ZNWAP $ 0.25 06/02/2023 439,916 - (439,916 ) - - ZNWAR $ 0.25 06/23/2023 1,020,000 - (1,020,000 ) - - Outstanding warrants 13,273,365 23,428,448 (1,467,676 ) - 35,234,137 44 Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations The following summarizes our
contractual consolidated financial obligations for continuing operations at December 31, 2022, and the effect such obligations are
expected to have on our liquidity and cash flow in future periods. Payment due by period (in Thousands of USD) 2023 2024 2025 2026 Thereafter Total Exploration Related Commitments 2.712 - - - - 2.712 Operating Leases 193 16 - - - 209 Employment Agreements 1,870 - - - - 1,870 Total 4,775 16 --- - - 4,791 Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements We do not currently use any
off-balance sheet arrangements to enhance our liquidity or capital resource position, or for any other purpose. Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements The Company does not believe
that the adoption of any recently issued accounting pronouncements in 2022 had a significant impact on our consolidated financial position,
results of operations, or cash flow, except for ASC Update No. 2016-02—Leases, which requires organizations to recognize lease assets
and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. ASU 2016-02 requires that a
lessee should recognize a liability to make lease payments (the lease liability) and a right-of-use asset representing its right to use
the underlying asset for the lease term on the balance sheet. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018
(including interim periods within those periods) using a modified retrospective approach and early adoption is permitted. The Company
adopted ASU 2016-02 in the first quarter of 2019. See Note 10 for more complete details on balances at December 31, 2022, and 2021. 45 ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
ABOUT MARKET RISK Market risk is a broad term
for the risk of economic loss due to adverse changes in the fair value of a financial instrument. These changes may be the result of various
factors, including interest rates, foreign exchange rates, commodity prices and/or equity prices. In the normal course of doing business,
we are exposed to the risks associated with foreign currency exchange rates and changes in interest rates. Foreign Currency Exchange
Rate Risks . A portion of our expenses, primarily labor expenses and certain supplier contracts, are denominated in New Israeli Shekels
(“NIS”). As a result, we have significant exposure to the risk of fluctuating exchange rates with the U.S. Dollar (“USD”),
our primary reporting currency. During the period January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022, the USD has fluctuated by approximately 13.2%
against the NIS (the USD has strengthened relative to the NIS). By contrast, during the period January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021,
the USD has fluctuated by approximately 3.3% against the NIS (the USD has weakened relative to the NIS). Continued strengthening of the
US dollar against the NIS will result in lower operating costs from NIS denominated expenses. To date, we have not hedged any of our currency
exchange rate risks, but we may do so in the future. Interest Rate Risk. Our
exposure to market risk relates to our cash and investments. We maintain an investment portfolio of short-term bank deposits and money
market funds. The securities in our investment portfolio are not leveraged, and are, due to their very short-term nature, subject to minimal
interest rate risk. We currently do not hedge interest rate exposure. Because of the short-term maturities of our investments, we do not
believe that a change in market interest rates would have a significant negative impact on the value of our investment portfolio except
for reduced income in a low interest rate environment. At December 31, 2022, we had cash, cash equivalents and short-term and long-term
bank deposits of approximately $3,114,000. The weighted average annual interest rate related to our cash and cash equivalents for the
year ended December 31, 2022, exclusive of funds at US banks that earn no interest, was approximately 0.6%. The primary objective of our
investment activities is to preserve principal while at the same time maximizing yields without significantly increasing risk. To achieve
this objective, we invest our excess cash in short-term bank deposits and money market funds that may invest in high quality debt instruments. ITEM 8. None. ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE None. 46 ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES EVALUATION OF DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. We maintain disclosure controls
and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or furnish to the SEC
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified
by the SEC’s rules and forms, and that information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive
officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. We carried out an
evaluation required by the Exchange Act, under the supervision and with the participation of our principal executive officer and
principal financial and accounting officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and
procedures, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15 of the Exchange Act, as of December 31, 2022. Based on this evaluation, our
principal executive officer and our principal financial and accounting officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures
were effective, as of December 31, 2022, to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the
reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act are recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and to provide reasonable assurance that such information is accumulated and
communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer, as
appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. In designing and evaluating
our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated,
can provide only reasonable, and not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system will be met. In addition, the design
of any control system is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events and the application of judgment
in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Because of these and other inherent limitations of control
systems, there is only reasonable assurance that our controls will succeed in achieving their goals under all future conditions. MANAGEMENT’S ANNUAL REPORT ON INTERNAL
CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING Our management, under the
supervision of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate