Continuity Of Copper-Zinc Mineralization At Sesmarias North Within Alvalade Project

VANCOUVER - Avrupa Minerals Ltd. reported more definitive continuity of massive sulfide mineralization in the North sector at the Sesmarias Copper-Zinc prospect within the Alvalade Project, in Alentejo, Portugal.  The program is a joint venture between Avrupa Minerals and Minas de Aguas Tenidas, S.A. (Sandfire MATSA) and is operated by Avrupa through the JV entity PorMining Lda.  To date, at Sesmarias North, the Company has completed 17 diamond drill holes, totaling 8,900 meters, on six different fences along a strike length of 400 meters.

Paul W. Kuhn, President and CEO, said, “The new drill results continue to exhibit the strength of the Sesmarias North massive sulfide mineralization.  We look forward to further drilling underneath SES21-046 and SES21-044 in this sector to increase the size of the massive sulfide body and hopefully the grade of the copper-zinc mineralization.  We also expect to continue to work southwards towards the Central sector and the original discovery area.  We have a further 1.1 kilometers of strike length to the south still to test, and unknown distance to the north of the initial JV drilling.  We expect a busy summer drilling season at Sesmarias and other targets along the Pyrite Belt trend that we control in the Alvalade Project.”

To date, in the MATSA JV, the Company completed 16 drill holes (including three holes lost due to difficult downhole drilling conditions) in the SES North sector, and one scout hole in the SES Central sector (SES21-041), totaling 8,900 meters.  The Company drilled one scout hole of 614 meters in the Caveira District (CAV21-001), located 16 kilometers north of Sesmarias.