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Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AVU,FWB:8AM) and its Joint Venture partner, Antofagasta Minerals SA, resumed core drilling at the Monte da Bela Vista target area within the Avalade project, located in the Pyrite Belt of Portugal. The Alvalade project is operated by Avrupa and fully funded by Antofagasta Minerals SA. 2,756 meters were drilled in Phase 3a, and up to 1,600 meters is planned for Phase 3b. Results from Phase 3a included stockwork quartz-copper mineralization of up to 0.22% Cu over 13.2 meters.
As quoted in the press release:
This will be the fourth hole drilled at Monte da Bela Vista, which is located less than two kilometers north of the old Lousal Mine on the Neves Corvo mineral trend. The Company plans to drill 2-3 holes and up to 1600 meters at several targets in Phase 3b of drilling. Earlier this year, the Company drilled 2,756 meters in five holes at various targets during Phase 3a.
Avrupa Minerals Ltd. CEO, Paul Kuhn, said:
The Avrupa team continues to upgrade its knowledge in the Pyrite Belt, as it uses both historic and new geochemical, geological, and geophysical data to better vector in to possible massive sulfide mineralization on a large, expansive land position. The Alvalade JV license package is covered, in large part, by both Tertiary sediments and structural modifications of the rock units, often burying target rock units with up to several hundred meters of overburden. This is a difficult program, but the fact that we can still intercept altered and mineralized target rocks is highly encouraging.
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