May 9, 2017 – Vancouver, BC: Riverside Resources Inc. (“Riverside” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: RRI), is pleased to announce that the Company has commenced a self-funded exploration program at the Cecilia Gold Project (the “Project”)located in northeastern Sonora, Mexico. Riverside’s exploration team is targeting epithermal gold-silver mineralization within a felsic volcanic flow-dome setting. Multiple targets exist at different elevation levels within the complex, with historic results indicating the presence of near surface gold mineralization.
Riverside’s first phase exploration program at the Cecilia Project will consist of extensive rock-chip sampling to confirm the existence of zones of gold-bearing hydrothermal breccias and quartz veinlet stockworks that had been previously identified by historic exploration work (view Project History on the Company’s website). Additional prospecting work will be completed at the same time as the ‘confirmation’ rock sampling with the objective being to increase the extent of the known zones of gold mineralization and to discover new zones.