- CEO
- Paul W. Kuhn
- Full Time Employees
- 2
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Industrial Materials
- Address
- 325 Howe Street Vancouver BC Canada V6C 1Z7
- IPO Date
- Dec 31, 2010
- Business
- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: AVU; OTC: AVPMF; Frankfurt: 8AM) is a Canada-based junior exploration and development company focused on the discovery of mineral deposits in Europe through a hybrid prospect generator business model that advances projects via joint ventures and partnerships. Incorporated in 2008 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, the company explores for copper, zinc, gold, silver, lead and other base and precious metals in politically stable regions including Portugal, Finland and Kosovo; it holds a 100%-owned license for the Alvalade volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) project covering 115 square kilometers in Portugal's Iberian Pyrite Belt, which includes the Sesmarias massive sulfide discovery, Monte da Bela Vista stockwork target, and past-producing Lousal and Caveira iron-copper-zinc mines; a 49%-owned license for the Slivova gold project covering 31.2 square kilometers in Kosovo's Vardar Trend; and through its Finland-domiciled partnership Akkerman Finland Oy (AFOy) with Akkerman Exploration bv of The Netherlands, six copper-zinc exploration permits and one gold permit in the prolific Vihanti-Pyhäsalmi VMS district in central Finland, targeting extensions of the historic Pyhäsalmi deposit and satellite prospects. The Alvalade project is optioned to Sandfire MATSA (Minas de Aguas Teñidas, S.A.), a Spanish mining company, in an earn-in joint venture agreement initiated in 2020 following Avrupa's 2018-2019 self-funded drilling that confirmed high-grade copper-zinc-lead-silver mineralization at Sesmarias; the Slivova project is optioned to Western Tethyan Resources, a UK-based explorer, advancing a JORC/NI 43-101 inferred resource of 250,000 tonnes at 3.7 grams per tonne gold and 13 grams per tonne silver. Recent developments include AFOy's expansion of landholdings in the Vihanti-Pyhäsalmi district with additional exploration permits adjacent to the Pyhäsalmi mine in 2025, enhancing the portfolio of VMS targets for potential joint venture partnerships; a $500,000 private placement financing announced in late 2025 to fund copper-focused exploration; and ongoing efforts to attract new partners for drilling and geophysical enhancement of Finnish and Portuguese prospects, alongside President and CEO Paul W. Kuhn's attendance at the Resourcing Tomorrow Conference in London from December 2-4, 2025.