VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - May 8, 2012) - Riverstone Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RVS)(OTCQX:RVREF)(FRANKFURT:3RV) (the "Company") announces that it granted an aggregate incentive stock options to directors and an officer of the Company exercisable to purchase an aggregate 1,050,000 common shares in the capital of the Company until May 8, 2017, at an exercise price of $0.37 per share, being the closing market price of the Company's shares as traded on the TSX Venture Exchange on May 7, 2012. The incentive stock options were granted in accordance with the Company's Fixed Number Stock Option Plan and are subject to vesting provisions.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Dwayne Melrose,
President and CEO
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