Rye Patch Reports Drilling Starts at Lincoln Hill

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 28, 2014) - Rye Patch Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RPM)(OTCQX:RPMGF)(FRANKFURT:5TN) (the "Company" or "Rye Patch") is pleased to report the commencement of drilling operations at its 100% controlled Lincoln Hill project located in Pershing County, Nevada.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• A 5,000 metre drill program directed at the Independence Hill and Roosevelt targets has commenced;
• Independence Hill contains four high-grade gold and silver structural corridors with gold and silver values up to 37.5 g/t Au and 2,070.0 g/t Ag, 22.87 g/t Au and 9.7 g/t Ag, 1.62 g/t Au and 568.0 g/t Ag; and
• The Roosevelt target returned high-grade gold and silver values including 34.79 g/t Au and 779 g/t Ag, 14 g/t Au and 183 g/t Ag, 97.92 g/t Au and 1527 g/t Ag and 97.5 g/t Au and 1303 g/t Ag.

As reported on May 9, 2013, samples collected from heavily altered and mineralized outcrop exposures at the Alexander Hamilton, Buck&Charlie, Looney, Hill Top, and Octopus historic mines confirm four separate high-grade corridors crossing Independence Hill which could extend the Lincoln Hill gold and silver mineralization southward for an additional 1,300 metres.

The Hill Top-Looney and Buck&Charlie mines represent two parallel trends extending south of the Lincoln Hill resource. Near the Buck&Charlie mine, a rock-chip sample returned 37.5 g/t Au and 2,070.0 g/t Ag from a breccia outcrop. The outcropping breccia has been mapped for 380 metres along a southwest to northeast trend.

The second trend contains the Hill Top and Looney mines with high-grade gold and silver sampled along 1.3 kilometres. The Hill Top mine consists of several historic workings following a quartz stockwork zone with outcroppings over 300 metres in a northwest-southeast orientation. The Hill Top mine returned significant lead and zinc values with lead ranging between 36 ppm to 51,100 ppm, and zinc ranging between 10 ppm to 4,694 ppm from rock-chip channel samples. At the Looney mine, a rock-chip grab sample returned 22.87 g/t Au and 9.7 g/t Ag from quartz vein material. Surface exposures in the old workings and shafts indicate the zone is at least 400 metres long.