Mr. Paul Kuhn reports

KOLIMA COPPER/ZINC EXPLORATION PERMIT ISSUED, PYHASALMI MINING DISTRICT, FINLAND

Avrupa Minerals Ltd. has issued the Kolima exploration permit, located in the Pyhasalmi mining district in central Finland, and has cleared all appeals, and the permit is fully issued to Akkerman Finland (AFOy). AFOy is owned by Avrupa (49 per cent) and Akkerman Exploration BV (51 per cent). The partnership holds a portfolio of seven copper/zinc volcanogenic massive sulphide projects in the Pyhasalmi mining district and one shear-hosted, orogenic gold prospect in the Oijarvi greenstone belt, also located in central Finland.

The Kolima prospect is located 60 kilometres south of the Pyhasalmi mine. The Geological Survey of Finland worked the prospect area intermittently between 1956 and 1993, and outlined an area, approximately 200 to 400 metres wide and 2,000 metres long, of disseminated zinc-lead mineralization and thin semi-massive sulphide stringers containing pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite.

According to AFOy reports: "Some 40 years of investigations by the GTK, including more than 10,000 m of drilling in 80 holes within the Kolima reservation, have outlined an important zone of distal-type VMS mineralization. This zone, named the Karna prospect, extends over a strike length of two km and is open at depth and along strike to the south. It is hosted by a package of marine metasediments (biotite-garnet gneiss) and fine volcaniclastics, overlain by postmineral mafic volcanics."

For a number of geological reasons, AFOy suggests that the area has high potential for proximal VMS targeting. These reasons include:

• The prospective horizon for a large VMS deposit is represented by a lead-zinc-bearing series of biotite-garnet gneiss intercalated with fine volcanic ash and tuff.
• This target horizon overlies a thicker package of proximal volcanics to the south and southeast intersected by several scout holes drilled in the late 1970s, and is covered by postmineral sequence of mafic volcanics.
• The known part of the mineral horizon is present in the core of an anti-clinal structure in the Karna prospect over an area of 200 to 400 metres wide and 2,000 metres long below mafic lavas and agglomerates with a high magnetic signature.
• At the Karna prospect, there is a trend of higher grades and thickness of the zinc-lead-bearing metasediments to the south coincident with increasing proportion of felsic volcanoclastic rocks.
• Apart from the cluster of mineralized boulders in the Karna area, mineralized boulders have also been found farther south in several trails and clusters. These include boulders with more copper plus or minus gold rather than zinc-lead, indicative of more proximal, higher-temperature VMS-style mineralization. The origin of these copper-rich boulders has not yet been found.
• Scout holes drilled south and east of the Karna prospect encountered thick packages of felsic volcaniclastics and flows indicative of a more proximal location to one or more eruptive volcanic centres.

Paul W. Kuhn, president and chief executive officer of Avrupa Minerals, noted: "We are pleased that the Kolima permit has now been issued without encumbrance, and is ready for further exploration work. The next step will be to permit selected scout drill hole collars in the target area. The area is part of our Pyhasalmi VMS project portfolio, and we look forward to moving the project forward."

Avrupa is a growth-oriented junior exploration and development company directed to discovery of valuable mineral deposits, using a hybrid project generator business model. Avrupa is actively advancing seven copper-zinc VMS targets and one orogenic gold prospect in central Finland through its partnership with Akkerman Exploration in the Finnish exploration company, Akkerman Finland. Avrupa holds one 100-per-cent-owned project in Portugal, the Alvalade VMS project, and has submitted an application for a mining licence covering the Sesmarias copper/zinc massive sulphide showing within the project area. The company holds one 49-per-cent-owned exploration licence covering the Slivova gold project in Kosovo, optioned to Western Tethyan Resources. Avrupa continues to focus its project generation work in politically stable and prospective regions of Europe, and looks to develop new opportunities around the general Mediterranean basin. The company is actively seeking new joint venture partnerships for its projects in Finland and Portugal.

Mr. Kuhn, president and CEO of Avrupa Minerals, a licensed professional geologist and a registered member of the Society of Mining Engineers, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators. He has reviewed the technical disclosure in this release. Mr. Kuhn, the qualified person, has not only reviewed, but prepared and supervised the preparation or approval of, the scientific and technical content in the news release.