Avrupa Minerals Ltd.

Avrupa Minerals is pleased to announce that the financing first reported on September 19, 2012, and then increased on October 3, 2012, has been closed. Certain strategic investors also participated in the financing, including one investor that is part of the Sprott group of companies who becomes a reporting insider of the Company. The management team and several shareholders also increased their positions. The support of [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/03/12 -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AVU)(FRANKFURT: 8AM) is pleased to announce that it has increased the offering announced on September 19, 2012 from $975,000 to $1,198,500 or a total of 7,990,000 Units. The offering has also been fully subscribed and will close shortly.

Certain key investors have also increased their investment in Avrupa. One new investor to [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/27/12 -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AVU)(FRANKFURT: 8AM) is pleased to announce that drilling has started at the Covas Joint Venture project, located in northern Portugal. The project, announced in May 2011, is a joint venture between Avrupa and Blackheath Resources Inc. Blackheath is providing EUR 1 million of exploration funding in two stages to earn up to 70 [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/20/12 -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AVU)(FRANKFURT: 8AM) is pleased to announce that it has secured a listing in Europe on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "8AM". Avrupa has also engaged the German firm Finanzkommunikation GmbH, to assist with translation and distribution of news releases to German investors and financial institutions. The [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/18/12 -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AVU) is pleased to announce that it has agreed to complete a financing for $975,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement of units ("the "Units").

Avrupa continues to advance the Alvalade project in the Portuguese Pyrite Belt with its joint venture partner, with a project exploration budget of US$2.5 million for 2012. The [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/05/12 --

-- Company acquires Arcas Au-W license in N. Portugal Au-W Belt
-- Avrupa now holds 9 licenses, covering 2,608 km2 in Portugal
-- Alvito license is highly prospective for porphyry Cu-Au mineralization
-- Marateca prospecting report upgrades five new VMS target areas
-- Arga license shows potential for intrusion-related gold deposits


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Avrupa Minerals is pleased to provide an update on the progress at the Alvalade Joint Venture in Portugal, an exploration project operated by Avrupa and funded by Antofagasta Minerals SA (AMSA). The company has completed detailed logging and first-pass sampling of the Phase 1 drill holes. Full geochemical results from all 971 samples are expected by mid-September.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/18/12 -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AVU) is pleased to announce that work will start on the 2012 exploration program at the Covas tungsten-gold joint venture project, located in northern Portugal. Blackheath Resources Inc. ("Blackheath") has a two-stage option to earn into 70% of the joint venture, by spending one million euros by March of 2014. Blackheath can [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/28/12 -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AVU) -


-- New Slivovo license acquired
-- Sampling and prospecting completed at Koritnik
-- Kosovo pages updated on Avrupa website


Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that the mining bureau of Kosovo (ICMM) has awarded the Slivovo exploration license to the Company. The license covers an attractive massive [...]

Avrupa is pleased to report that first-pass reconnaissance and generative work has started on the Oelsnitz Au-W-Sn project, located in the historic Erzgebirge Mining District in eastern Germany. The Erzgebirge (or "Ore Mountains", in German) has hosted nearly 900 years of exploration and mining for silver, base metals, tin, tungsten, iron, fluorite, and uranium. Although there has been no significant metal mining activity [...]