Rye Patch Gold wins access to LH claim portion
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Rye Patch Gold wins access to LH claim portion

Rye Patch Gold Corp (C:RPM)
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Wednesday December 21 2011 - News Release

Mr. William Howald reports

RYE PATCH GRANTED ACCESS TO THE LH CLAIMS

Rye Patch Gold Corp.'s state district court in Pershing County, Nevada granted access to Rye Patch Gold on the LH claims outside of a court-defined boundary. To ensure the safety of Coeur Rochester and Rye Patch Gold employees, contractors and consultants, the Sixth Judicial District Court outlined an area encompassing the Rochester mine's current open pit, waste dumps and heap-leach pads and a buffer area around them. The enjoined areas affect only a portion of the lands on which the 402 senior LH unpatented mining claims are located. Rye Patch Gold has access to continue exploration and development work on the remaining LH unpatented mining claims. The District Court will enter a formal written order.

The 402 unpatented mining claims cover 30.3 square kilometres and an unknown portion of the Rochester and Nevada Packard resources along with numerous gold-silver targets which Rye Patch Gold has identified within the newly staked ground. The geologic team is working to assess the amount of gold and silver resource present on the LH claims. According to Coeur d'Alene's disclosure statement, as much as 20% of the Rochester mine's reserves and a significant portion of the resource lie within the LH claims.

Rye Patch's geologic team will be back on the ground sampling, mapping and preparing for a winter drill program. Permits for drilling have been submitted to the BLM for the Packard/Mystic target and the portion of the Northwest Rochester discovery area outside of the injunction boundary. A third drill permit is in the works for the Independence Hill area adjacent to the Company's 100% owned and controlled Lincoln Hill project. Published drill results show the Nevada Packard resource continued from the patented claims northward on to the LH claims. Several additional targets are within the claim block including the Mystic, Independence Hill and Limerick Basin which will be permitted. Finally, the Black fault zone is within the eastern portion of the LH Claims. This ore control has significant potential and controls gold and silver mineralization at the Relief Canyon, Packard, Rochester, and Spring Valley deposits. All these targets are presently being evaluated and prioritized.

The Rochester ore body is open to the north and northwest and the pit boundary is projected by Coeur d'Alene to expand on to Rye Patch Gold's senior LH unpatented mining claims.

The court-ordered injunction remains in place until resolution of Rye Patch Gold's claim that title to the senior LH unpatented mining claims is superior to the junior unpatented mining claims which Coeur Rochester staked over the LH Claims. This injunction order supersedes the Temporary Restraining Order the judge entered on December 5, 2011 against Rye Patch. The underlying legal action in this case will continue and discovery will commence with a trial expected in 2012.

As announced on May 18, 2010, May 11, 2009, and June 2, 2009, in respect of the Lincoln Hill, Wilco, and Jessup projects, Rye Patch Gold's resource inventory along the Oreana trend totals 1,182,780 ounces of gold and gold equivalent in the measured and indicated category plus 2,727,100 ounces of gold and gold equivalent in the inferred category.

We seek Safe Harbor.

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