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Avrupa Minerals reports on progress in Kosovo and Portugal
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AVU) is pleased to report on progress at drilling projects in Kosovo a
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[{"type":"text","content":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AVU) is pleased to report on progress at drilling projects in Kosovo and Portugal. The Company’s partners funded two drill programs during 2017. In Kosovo, Byrnecut International Ltd. (“BIL”) completed an 18-hole, 6,280-meter core drilling program at the Slivovo Gold Project, while in Portugal Blackheath Resources Inc. (“BHR”) completed a single, exploratory test hole at the Covas Tungsten Project where Avrupa is the operator. Slivovo Gold Project, Kosovo The 2017 drill program was originally planned for 5,670 meters. The program was designed to focus on five areas of interest. These were designated as potential target areas to significantly expand the known, near-deposit mineralization modeled by BIL as part of their detailed technical study completed at the end of 2016. The study fulfilled their 85% earn-in commitment in the Project. Avrupa is no longer contributing to the program and expects to be diluted to a 2% NSR in 2018. The areas of interest (Figure 1) were designated as: Main Gossan Offset Gossan Extension Sandstone Gossan Deep IP Anomaly Dzemail The targeting process for the program was assisted by utilization of data and modeling from previous work phases at Slivovo, which included: Four phases of historic drilling, 2014 - 2016 Limited, but widespread soil and rock chip sampling, 2014 - 2016 Focused, limited IP and EM geophysical surveys, 2016 Limited field mapping, 2014 - 2016 Structural interpretation Geological modeling Targets were selected for viability based on three major factors: IP anomalies, shallow (less than 100 meters deep) and deep (greater than 100 meters deep), identified in the 2016 geophysical program Structural and geological models based on historic drilling and geological mapping Limited-in-scope, widespread geochemical surveys The following figure shows the locations of the five target areas and the 2017 drill holes and traces. Results from the drilling were mixed. New geological and structural information gained from the work indicated that the complexity of the Slivovo system is greater than originally suspected. Geochemical results from sampling of the mineralized core did not significantly extend near-surface gold mineralization. The combination of t...