IRO Inter Rock Minerals Inc

RNY Project

Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:IRO) ("Inter-Rock") announces commencement
of work on the first phase of a track-mounted reverse circulation drill program
at its wholly-owned RNY Gold Project in Nevada (previously referred to as
Sentinel Peak). The Project recently received approval by the US Bureau of Land
Management for an exploration program under a Notice of Operations. The RNY
Project is located in Humboldt County, approximately 80 miles north of
Winnemucca, Nevada. Inter-Rock holds 22 claims covering 440 acres. No royalties
or lease payments are associated with the property.


Road work to provide drill access to the project area has been completed by
Inter-Rock. Channel (10' to 15') sampling of bedrock exposures in the recent
road cuts yielded the following new results.




--  Area 1: 
    125' of anomalous Au values (greater than 30 ppb). 
    15' continuous sample @ 0.015 oz/t (not included in above). 
    
--  Area 2: 
    100' of anomalous Au values (greater than 30 ppb). 
    
--  Area 3: 
    45' of anomalous Au values (greater than 30 ppb). 
    20' continuous sample @ 0.018 oz/t (not included in above).
    3' @ 0.162 oz/t, adjacent to above.
    3' vertical sample @ 0.036 oz/t, adjacent to above. 
    



All of the areas sampled were well oxidized with strong fracturing and iron
oxide staining.


All analyses were performed by BSI-Inspectorate located in Sparks, NV. The
analyses were performed using fire assaying with AA finish for Au, cold vapor/AA
for Hg, and aqua regia digestion followed by AA analysis for Ag, As, Cu, Pb, Sb,
and Zn.


The drill program is designed to test for high-angle structure-controlled
epithermal gold mineralization as well as stratigraphically/structurally
controlled disseminated gold mineralization. Both target types are suggested by
the presence and distribution of widespread, anomalous-to-ore grade gold values
and geochemical indicator element anomalies from rock and soil samples. 


A contract with Delong Drilling of Winnemucca, NV has been executed and drilling
is scheduled to commence by mid-October. A series of reverse circulation holes
will be drilled from several sites.


In late 2008, Inter-Rock completed a soil sampling program at RNY. A total of
230 samples were collected on a 100 foot grid at both the northern section of
the property and at the southern boundary of a previously outlined anomalous
gold zone. The Inter-Rock soil sampling program confirmed the presence of three
anomalous (greater than 30 ppb Au) zones, where a gold anomaly was defined as a
zone containing several contiguous samples containing greater than 30 ppb gold
in soil. All three zones had been identified as anomalous gold zones by
Australian Ores and Minerals (AOM) in their previous sampling program. 


Previous mapping and interpretation revealed that the RNY gold prospect occurs
in and around a Cretaceous biotite granodiorite stock that intruded a series of
Permian metavolcanics and metasediments. The stock is several thousand feet
long. The stock and Permian country rock were later intruded by latite porphyry
dikes. NE-SW and NW-SE shear structures with cross cutting faults are also
present in the stock. The Permian rocks are locally hornfelsed and pyrrhotized
adjacent to the biotite granodiorite and latite porphyry intrusive bodies. 


Both the intrusive and sediment/volcanic packages contain numerous areas of
cross-cutting veinlets, stockworks, and veins of silica, calcite, and iron
oxides. Hydrothermal alteration is prevalent throughout the anomalous area with
phyllic/argillic alteration up to 50% quartz and 50% sericite. 


AOM discovered gold mineralization at RNY in the 1990's by follow-up field
examination of a Geoscan Mk. II airborne multispectral scanner anomaly. Their
work comprised geological mapping, a closely-spaced soil geochemical program,
analysis of rock chip, trenching (approx. 9800 feet) and road cut samples,
petrographic work, and ground geophysical studies. Approximately 984 soil
samples on 100 foot grid spacing and 1,160 rock chip samples in the area were
collected and analyzed. The rock chip geochemistry returned gold to 7.0 ppm,
silver to 39 ppm, arsenic to 690 ppm, and mercury to 9.7 ppm. The soil samples
showed gold up to 2.1 ppm with large areas of plus 100 ppb. One trench
reportedly revealed a zone of 90 feet grading 1.2 ppm gold. Inter-Rock recently
acquired copies of the original assay certificates from AOM's work. 


To date, there has been insufficient exploration at RNY to define a mineral
resource and Inter-Rock cautions that there is a risk that further exploration
will not result in the delineation of a resource.


Douglas H. McGibbon, MS Geol, a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) with the
American Institute of Professional Geologists and a Qualified Person under NI
43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical content of this news release.
Mr. McGibbon has worked in exploration for gold and other commodities in Nevada
and elsewhere for over 30 years.


Other Business:

Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Kelly R.
Mills to the position of Treasurer. Ms. Mills is currently Secretary/Treasurer
and Administrative Manager for MIN-AD, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of
Inter-Rock. She has been involved with Inter-Rock for the past ten years and has
more than 20 years experience in various positions within the mineral industry.


Certain information regarding Inter-Rock including management's assessment of
future plans and operations, may constitute forward-looking statements under
applicable securities laws and necessarily involve risks associated with mining
exploration and development, volatility of prices, currency fluctuations,
imprecision of resource estimates, environmental and permitting risks, access to
labor and services, competition from other companies and ability to access
sufficient capital. As a consequence, actual results may differ materially from
those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.

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