AVU Avrupa Minerals Ltd

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--  Drilling planned for Alvalade and Covas in Portugal 
--  Alvito license covers 22 separate mineral targets 
--  JV discussions for Alvito and other licenses in Portugal underway 
--  Work at Slivovo, Kosovo, upgrades two target areas 
--  Exploration for tin and gold started at Erzgebirge, Germany



Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on the recent progress of
its exploration projects in Europe. The Company actively operates the Alvalade
and Covas Joint Ventures in Portugal and the Slivovo Joint Venture in Kosovo. In
addition, Avrupa operates an Exploration Alliance in Portugal that covers
country-wide generative exploration and one Exploration Alliance Property where
more advanced exploration work is underway to assist in bringing that license to
JV-ready status.


Portugal - Alvalade JV

The Company, along with JV funding partner Antofagasta Minerals, will initiate a
further round of exploration drilling at the Alvalade Joint Venture in the
Pyrite Belt of southern Portugal. The drilling will target potential extensions
of the Sesmarias massive sulfide-style mineralization described in recent news
releases (February 27 and May 12, 2014). The JV is budgeting for 2,700 to 3,000
meters of core drilling in the upcoming program, slated to start during the
second week of June.


Portugal - Covas JV

Avrupa and Covas JV funding partner Blackheath Resources are currently
undertaking a geophysical targeting program to help identify high grade tungsten
possibilities in several areas around the Covas Project in northern Portugal.
The work covers target areas within the Covas Dome and at the Telheira prospect,
as well as in several previously under-explored areas in the northwest reaches
of the Covas Dome and Skarn Ring. The Company expects to complete this work by
the end of June. Avrupa and Blackheath also expect to begin a core drilling
project at Covas in late June to test for further high grade mineralization at
the Castelo, Lapa Grande, Muito Seco, and Telheira prospect areas. The goal of
this work will be to extend known high grade tungsten mineralization in these
areas and to assist in the initiation of the first NI 43-101-compliant resource
calculation on the Covas Project.


Portugal - Alvito Project

The Company, with funding from Callinan Royalties Corp., has also completed
another stage of exploration work on the Alvito license, located mostly in the
Ossa Morena metallogenic zone and partially in the Pyrite Belt in southern
Portugal. The work brings the project up to JV-ready status, and the Company is
actively engaging a potential partner for this Project. Work over the past year
at Alvito has identified eight separate copper and copper-gold targets in the
Alcacovas copper belt and another 14 poly-metallic targets of various types
around the license. Less than half of the Ossa Morena portion of the license has
been reviewed, and virtually none of the Pyrite Belt portion has been visited by
Company explorationists, to date, which leaves a large, open prospective area.
Several of the present targets could be drilled within 3-4 months of signing of
a joint venture at Alvito.


Portugal - Projects added and dropped

Also in Portugal, Avrupa has applied for a license in the Freixeda gold district
in the northeast part of the country. Numerous quartz veins in the area were
first mined during Roman times, and most recently in the mid 1950's by a local
mining group. There has been little work or exploration completed in the
district since that time. The Company hopes to complete acquisition of the
license before the end of the year. Two other license applications located in
the Pyrite Belt, Santa Margarida do Sado and Mertola, will be signed in the
coming weeks. In addition, Avrupa has applied to the Portuguese Mining Bureau to
drop three licenses in northern Portugal due to lack of results appropriate for
joint venture possibilities.


Kosovo - Slivovo Option

Avrupa started targeting work at Slivovo in mid-April, upon receipt of the first
tranche of funding from Option partner Byrnecut International. The Slivovo
license covers a carbonate rock-hosted, polymetallic massive sulfide target
around the site of the outcropping Pester gossan (roughly 170 by 70 meters in
size) and a second, possible epithermal, target (open-ended strike length of 900
meters by at least 75 meters-wide zone of altered rocks), located approximately
1,000 meters away from the gossan. Geological and spatial relationships between
the two outcropping sites of mineralization suggest the possibility of a larger
mineralized system, but much more technical work is needed to prepare for drill
targeting. Avrupa hopes to start a drill program at Slivovo late in Q3.


Results from sampling of three reconnaissance trenches in the area of the
epithermal target, completed in 2013, show base metal anomalies in all three
trenches, including: 162 meters @ 1,139 ppm lead and 1,417 ppm zinc in Trench 1;
82 meters @ 334 ppm lead and 660 ppm zinc in Trench 2; and 74 meters @ 1,289 ppm
lead and 761 ppm zinc in Trench 3. The anomalies in Trench 3 also include a
section of 22 meters @ 1.3 ppm gold and 9.52 ppm silver. These trenches cover a
strike length of 400 meters of the known target.


The Company is preparing to extend all three trenches and will also construct
several more trenches to cover more strike length of the target. Avrupa
geologists are presently detail mapping and sampling the Pester gossan zone, and
will also undertake further reconnaissance-style sampling to attempt to better
understand the size and potential of both target areas, as well as attempt to
locate extensions and other mineralized locations.


Further information about the Slivovo project may be found on the newly updated
Kosovo web pages at the Avrupa website: www.avrupaminerals.com.


Germany - Erzgebirge Project

Avrupa and its partner Beak Associates on the Oelsnitz project in the Erzgebirge
mining district of eastern Germany are presently doing follow-up geochemical
sampling at several tin and gold anomalies around the license. Results of this
work will enable the Company to decide its next course of action on the project,
as to whether the project is ready for joint venture.


New Projects

Avrupa also continues to review and assess projects in other areas of Europe
that are located in favorable mining jurisdictions. The Company may then acquire
projects that are upgradeable with early stage exploration work to determine the
potential for joint venture funding by new partners.


Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is a growth-oriented junior exploration and development
company focused on discovery, using a prospect generator model, of valuable
mineral deposits in politically stable and prospective regions of Europe,
including Portugal, Kosovo, and Germany.


The Company currently holds 14 exploration licenses in three European countries,
including eight in Portugal covering 2,951.6 km2, five in Kosovo covering 153
km2, and one in Germany covering 307 km2. Avrupa operates three joint ventures
and one exploration alliance in Portugal and Kosovo, including:




--  The Alvalade JV, with Antofagasta, covering one license in the Iberian
    Pyrite Belt of southern Portugal, for Cu-rich massive sulfide deposits;

--  The Covas JV, with Blackheath Resources, covering one license in
    northern Portugal, for intrusion-related W deposits;

--  The Slivovo JV, with Byrnecut International, covering one license in
    central Kosovo, for gold and base metals related to carbonate-hosted
    massive sulfide deposits in the Vardar Mineral Trend; and

--  The CalGen Exploration Alliance, with Callinan Royalties Corp., covering
    generative exploration throughout Portugal, and including specific
    prospect upgrade work on the Alvito IOCG license in southern Portugal.



Avrupa is currently upgrading precious and base metal targets to JV-ready status
in a variety of districts on their other licenses, with the idea of attracting
potential partners to project-specific and/or regional exploration programs. 


On behalf of the Board,

Paul W. Kuhn, President & Director

This news release was prepared by Company management, who take full
responsibility for its content. Paul W. 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.


Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term
is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility
for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Avrupa Minerals Ltd.
1-604-687-3520
www.avrupaminerals.com

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