Rye Patch Receives New Trial Date From Sixth District Court

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Oct. 26, 2012) - Rye Patch Gold Corp (TSX VENTURE:RPM)(OTCQX:RPMGF)(FRANKFURT:5TN) (the "Company") reports on the legal dispute between the Company and its wholly-owned Nevada subsidiary Rye Patch Gold US Inc. against Coeur Rochester, Inc. ("CRI") a wholly-owned subsidiary of Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation. In order to complete the trial, a two-week time frame is estimated. The District Court's calendar shows the earliest available consecutive two-week period starts on September 16, 2013; however, Rye Patch Gold US Inc.'s legal counsel will confer with the court to seek an earlier trial date.

Rye Patch Gold US Inc. is awaiting the outcome of several pending motions before the Sixth District Court including its motion for preliminary injunction, and a motion for partial summary judgment. In addition, Rye Patch Gold US Inc. petitioned the Nevada Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to revoke the appointment of the special master. Rye Patch Gold US Inc. asserts the appointment of the special master is not authorized under the Nevada Rules for Civil Procedure. The Nevada Supreme Court has issued a stay of the order appointing the special master and has directed CRI to respond.

Last fall, Rye Patch Gold US Inc. located unpatented lode mining claims on open federally owned public lands of the United States of America. The federal lands became open for the staking of unpatented lode mining claims on September 1, 2011, because CRI did not pay the time-sensitive, mandatory unpatented claim maintenance fee. The result of CRI's failure was, its former 541 unpatented lode mining claims were forfeited and void as a matter of law, and the public lands became open for the location of unpatented lode mining claims by United States citizens.

CRI received documentation from the United States Bureau of Land Management issuing its letter officially declaring CRI's former 541 unpatented lode mining claims forfeited and void as a matter of law. CRI's parent corporation, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE:CDE), in its 10-K reported that CRI failed to pay the mandatory claim maintenance fees causing their mining claims - the former 541 unpatented lode mining claims - to be void.

Since the federal lands were open to mineral location by all United States citizens, including Rye Patch Gold US Inc., for 56 days, Rye Patch Gold US Inc. began staking the 402 LH unpatented lode mining claims on the open federal lands. The claim staking commenced on October 27, 2011, and all monumentation was completed by November 21, 2011. In late November 2011, Rye Patch Gold US Inc. contacted CRI to notify them the 402 LH unpatented lode mining claims had been staked. CRI's response was to overstake the senior 402 LH unpatented lode mining claims with a junior set of claims denoted as the N unpatented lode mining claims; hence the lawsuit. In 2012, an additional 11 unpatented lode mining claims were staked on open lands bringing Rye Patch Gold US Inc.'s total number of unpatented lode mining claims to 413 for the Rochester project.

Rye Patch Gold US Inc. controls over 100 square kilometres (40 sq. miles) along the Oreana trend. The Rochester Property - LH and OG Claims - cover over 30 square kilometres (7,500 acres) in 413 unpatented lode mining claims.

The Company is a Tier 1, Nevada-focused and discovery-driven company seeking to build a sizeable inventory of gold and silver resource assets in the mining friendly state of Nevada, USA. The Company's seasoned management team is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of quality resource-based gold and silver projects. Rye Patch Gold US Inc. is developing gold and silver resources along the emerging Oreana trend, located in west-central Nevada, and is exploring 66 square kilometres along the Cortez trend near Barrick's two new gold discoveries. The Company has established gold and silver resource milestones and time frames in order to build a premier resource development company. For more information about the Company, please visit our website at www.ryepatchgold.com.

On behalf of the Board of Directors