Rye Patch Gold Mobilizes Drill Back to Lincoln Hill

VANCOUVER, BC - Rye Patch Gold Corp reported that it has mobilized a drill rig back to the Lincoln Hill property to follow up on drillhole LR-013 which returned 700 feet grading 0.792 opt gold including an interval of 25 feet grading 2.200 opt gold (21.3 metres grading 27.16 g/t gold including an interval of 7.6 metres grading 75.44 g/t gold).
The objective of the follow-up drilling will be to follow the high-grade gold and silver intervals along strike of the northeast breccias zones as well as test the depth extent of this near-surface, shallow mineralisation.
Drilling is nearing completion at the Company's Wilco project and was recently completed at the Jessup project. The Company will have additional drill results for Wilco, Jessup and now Lincoln Hill over the next 8 weeks.
As released on the Company's Wilco project on May 12, 2008, and on the Jessup project in December 11, 2007, Rye Patch Gold now holds 779,517 ounces of gold and gold equivalent in the measured and indicated category plus 1,151,776 ounces of gold and gold equivalent in the inferred category.
The company's address is 1740-1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3, (604) 638-1588, fax: (604) 638-1589, email: [email protected].