Riverstone Intersects 6.95 g/t Gold over 6 m at Bissa East Property

Riverstone Resources Inc. (TSX-V; RVS) ("Riverstone" or the "Company") is pleased to report results from sixty-seven reverse circulation ("RC") drill holes on the 100% owned Biliga and Tangapella exploration permits, which form the Company's Bissa East Gold Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa (the "Bissa East Project"). These holes were part of a regional drill program designed to follow up on previously obtained anomalous soil, rock chip and RAB drilling results.

Significant assay intervals in these RC holes include:

• 6.95 g/t gold over 6 m in TGP-12-RC-044
• 1.2 g/t gold over 36 m including 1.60 g/t gold over 12 m in BLG-12-RC-034
• 1.13 g/t gold over 24 m in BLG-12-RC-032
• 1.04 g/t gold over 18 m including 2.94 g/t gold over 4 m in BLG-12-RC-004
• 1.12 g/t gold over 8 m in BLG-12-RC-020
• 2.03 g/t gold over 4 m in BLG-12-RC-012

"The Bissa East Project area is a highly prospective regional exploration target as it is adjacent to the Bissa Hill gold mine", commented Dwayne Melrose, President and CEO of Riverstone. "These initial RC drill results are very promising as they give us a good indication of numerous gold bearing structures that need to be followed up with further drilling. Riverstone has a very good portfolio of early stage exploration projects such as the Bissa East Project, Bissa West Project and also Liguidi, not to mention the excellent potential for expanding the Karma deposits".

The Biliga drill program comprised 40 holes (4752 m) and was designed to follow up on RAB drilling results from 2007 that returned 0.91 g/t gold over 21 m, including 1.67 g/t gold over 9 m in BLG-07-023, 2.09 g/t gold over 3 m in BLG-07-030, 1.38 g/t gold over 3 m in BLG-07-059, 1.47 g/t gold over 3 m in BLG-07-064 and 1.37 g/t gold over 3 m in BLG-07-075 (See Map on the Company's website for the location of the Biliga holes).

The Biliga permit is underlain by a series of northwest trending metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks plus a least one northeast trending intrusive. The intrusive lies in close proximity to a prominent regional northeast trending shear structure, which parallels the Sabcé shear zone to the south. This un-named structure hosts a small gold deposit just west of the Biliga permit, and it trends for almost 19 kilometres across Biliga. The Bissa Hill gold mine, which is currently under construction, along with a large number of gold occurrences, occurs within the Sabcé shear to the southwest.

The RC drill results indicate the presence of three gold bearing sub-parallel structures within the intrusive, with the southernmost structure traced for 1000 metres. All three structures are open in all directions, and are zones characterized by silica and hematite alteration, quartz veining and brecciation.

Drilling on Tangapella totaled 30 holes (3516 m) and targeted an artisanal mining site where previous rock chip sampling had returned high gold values, along with a prominent gold in soil anomaly further south. Tangapella is underlain by two distinct northwest trending bands of metavolcanics in thrust contact with surrounding metasediments, folded into a prominent northeast trending regional antiform. The axis of the antiform contains the Sabcé shear, a wide zone of deformation, which can be traced for approximately 20 kilometres across the permit. The volcanic-sedimentary contacts contain numerous artisanal gold mining sites, with intensely fractured, quartz veins and quartz stringer zones (See Map on the Company's website for the location of the Tangapella holes).

The Tanmiga artisanal site occurs adjacent to the Sabcé shear zone in a subsidiary structure. The Company obtained high gold values in rock sample results in 2007 within highly fractured, quartz rich, brecciated metasedimentary rocks. RC drill results indicate the presence of a discontinuous structure traceable over approximately 600 m, which is open in all directions. The Mafalou area to the south contains a prominent gold in soil anomaly, and the RC drilling has traced a discontinuous 400 metre long zone of brecciation, within which hole TGP-12-RC-044 returned 6.95 g/t gold over 6 m.

A more complete summary of significant results in these drill holes is presented in the following table:

Hole number	Interval (metres)		Intercept	Average
	From	To	(metres)	(g/t Au)
Tangapella Permit:
TGP-12-RC-019	108	110	2	1.340
TGP-12-RC-026	54	60	6	0.792
and	130	134	4	0.565
TGP-12-RC-027	74	78	4	0.502
and	84	88	4	0.639
and	98	100	2	1.330
TGP-12-RC-029	60	64	4	0.693
and	72	84	12	0.438
TGP-12-RC-031	100	108	8	0.474
TGP-12-RC-044	142	148	6	6.953
TGP-12-RC-045	68	70	2	1.600
and	76	78	2	0.701
Biliga Permit:
BLG-12-RC-002	18	20	2	0.502
and	54	62	8	0.427
BLG-12-RC-004	0	18	18	1.040
including	6	10	4	2.935
BLG-12-RC-005	6	8	2	0.761
and	38	40	2	0.564
BLG-12-RC-006	14	20	6	0.483
BLG-12-RC-007	34	50	16	0.426
BLG-12-RC-008	6	14	8	0.508
BLG-12-RC-012	10	14	4	2.030
and	42	54	12	0.565
BLG-12-RC-013	102	112	10	0.565
BLG-12-RC-014	88	90	2	0.573
BLG-12-RC-015	50	54	4	0.866
BLG-12-RC-017	106	108	2	0.804
BLG-12-RC-018	40	42	2	1.630
and	98	100	2	1.140
and	110	112	2	1.130
BLG-12-RC-019	52	54	2	0.722
BLG-12-RC-020	0	8	8	1.123
BLG-12-RC-021	38	82	44	0.685
and	94	102	8	0.573
BLG-12-RC-023	52	58	6	0.490
BLG-12-RC-024	0	2	2	1.920
BLG-12-RC-025	10	16	6	0.891
and	80	84	4	0.723
BLG-12-RC-026	32	36	4	0.566
and	50	52	2	0.692
and	56	58	2	1.430
BLG-12-RC-027	6	8	2	0.527
and	20	28	8	0.520
BLG-12-RC-028	2	8	6	0.649
and	40	42	2	1.600
and	64	66	2	1.740
BLG-12-RC-030	30	34	4	0.816
BLG-12-RC-031	36	44	8	0.581
BLG-12-RC-032	44	68	24	1.131
BLG-12-RC-033	2	8	6	0.436
and	74	76	2	0.713
BLG-12-RC-034	38	74	36	1.203
including	38	50	12	1.595
and	82	100	18	0.482
and	106	108	2	0.710
BLG-12-RC-036	104	106	2	0.917
and	128	132	4	0.482

Notes: Insufficient work has been completed on these areas to determine the true thickness of the mineralized zones.

Riverstone is active in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where it holds a portfolio of four high quality exploration projects covering in excess of 1,800 square kilometres. The Company's flagship project is the Karma Gold Project (the "Karma Project"), which comprises a NI 43-101 compliant in-pit Whittle indicated resource of 1.9 million ounces of gold in 56.5 million tonnes grading 1.1 g/t gold and an inferred resource of 0.5 million ounces of gold in 15.4 million tonnes grading 1.0 g/t gold (see Company's news release dated October 3, 2012 filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). The results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA"), which has recently been released (see Company news release dated August 20, 2012 and NI 43-101 Technical Report titled, "Preliminary Economic Assessment Report for the Karma Project, Burkina Faso, West Africa", with an effective date of August 2, 2012, filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) September 17, 2012), highlights the Karma Project to have robust economics. The PEA is based on the Company's previous January 9, 2012 resource estimate. The results of the updated resource estimate announced on October 3, 2012, is expected to further enhance project value as the Karma Project is advanced.

Additional information about the Company and its activities may be found on the Company's website at www.riverstoneresources.com and under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.

October 10, 2012 (Source: Riverstone Resources, Inc.)

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Disclosure:  Riverstone Resources is a Vulture Bargain Candidate of Interest (VBCI) and is our fully fledged Vulture Bargain #3. Members of the GGR team are actively accumulating shares of RVS.V or RVREF and continue to hold a speculative long position in the company.