The Company’s 100% owned Rochester project includes 402 senior unpatented lode mining claims between October 27, 2011 and November 21, 2011 at a length of 30.3km2 of Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation’s Rochester and Packard Silver mines.
Rye Patch Gold is developing gold and silver resources along the emerging Oreana trend in west-central Nevada, and is exploring 66km2 along the Cortez trend near Barrick’s two new gold discoveries.
The company noted 457 rock-chip samples were collected last year and five discoveries in Limerick Basin, Northwest Rochester, Mystic, Independence Hill, and the Black Ridge fault zone were identified.
About 75km of ground magnetics were completed over the senior LH claims; and 541 soil samples and 143 rock-chip samples have been collected with 18 rock-chip samples with gold values between 0.243 g/t gold and 87.39 g/t gold reported from the Sunflower Hill area.
Further, two reverse circulation drills at Limerick Basin and Northwest Rochester have completed 12,500ft in 16 drillholes while rock-chip sampling, soil sampling, a 75km line ground-magnetic geophysical survey have also been completed.
