Avrupa Minerals Ltd. completes and submits an application for a new Exploration Permit covering the historic Kangasjärvi zinc mine, potential extensions, and new targets along strike of the favorable mineral-hosting horizon. The application covers approximately 18.4 square kilometers of favorable terrane for copper- and zinc-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. This is the Company's second Exploration Permit application in Finland, subsequent to its acquisition of 49% of AFOy.

Kangasjärvi is located only 25 kilometers south of Finland's larger base metal mine, the still-active Pyhäsalmi zinc-copper mine. In 1985, Outokumpu provided an in-house, non - NI43-101 compliant, resource estimate for Kangasjärvi that defined an indicated and inferred mineral resource inventory of 300,000 mt of 5.4% zinc. Mining took place during the winter of 1984-85, and company reports described a total extraction of 86,000 mt of 5.14% zinc and 41 g/t silver before closure of the small-scale operation. First-pass review of drillhole logs and data suggests that the mineralization at Kangasjärvi is hosted by a unit comprising of fine-grained tuffs and sediments, and includes thin limestone layers that may act as marker beds within the mineral-horizon package.

The potential mineral-hosting unit is strongly altered, originally chlorite/sericite, and subsequently highly metamorphosed to include a cordierite-garnet- sillimanite assemblage of minerals. Widespread disseminated sulfides are present with increasing base metal sulfide content towards the known massive sulfide layer.