Ariana Resources plc : Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

7 January 2015

AIM: AAU

DIRECTORS' DEALINGS

HOLDING IN COMPANY

Ariana Resources plc ("Ariana" or "the Company"), the gold exploration and development company focused on Turkey, announces that it was informed today that Michael de Villiers, Chairman, has today purchased 500,000 ordinary shares in Ariana at 0.87 pence per ordinary share.  Further to this purchase, Mr de Villiers holds 14,300,000 ordinary shares in the Company, representing a percentage holding of 2.21% of the total issued share capital.

In addition, the Company was informed today that William Payne, Director, has today purchased 300,000 ordinary shares in Ariana at 0.87 pence per ordinary share.  Further to this purchase, Mr Payne, together with his family, holds 3,968,289 ordinary shares in the Company, representing a percentage holding of 0.6% of the total issued share capital.

Contacts:

Ariana Resources plc	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7407 3616
Michael de Villiers, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director
Beaumont Cornish Limited	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt
Beaufort Securities Limited	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7382 8300
Saif Janjua
Loeb Aron & Company Ltd.	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 1128
John Beresford-Peirse / Dr. Frank Lucas
St Brides Media & Finance Ltd	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7236 1177
Susie Geliher / Lottie Brocklehurst

About Ariana Resources:

Ariana is an Anglo-Turkish exploration and mine development company focused on advancing epithermal gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits in Turkey.  The Company is developing a portfolio of prospective licences selected on the basis of its in-house geological and remote-sensing database, on its own in western Turkey and in Joint Venture with Eldorado Gold Corporation in north-eastern Turkey.  Eldorado owns 51% of this joint venture and are fully funding all exploration work on the JV properties, while Ariana owns 49%.  The total resource inventory within this JV is 1.09 million ounces of gold.

The Company's flagship assets are its Kiziltepe and Tavsan gold projects that form the Red Rabbit Gold Project.  Both contain a series of prospects, within two prolific mineralised districts in the Western Anatolian Volcanic and Extensional (WAVE) Province in western Turkey.  This Province hosts the largest operating gold mines in Turkey and remains highly prospective for new porphyry and epithermal deposits.  These core projects, which are separated by a distance of 75km, are presently being assessed as to their economic merits and now form part of a Joint Venture with Proccea Construction Co.  The total resource inventory at the Red Rabbit Project stands at 475,000 ounces of gold equivalent. 

Beaufort Securities Limited and Loeb Aron & Company Ltd. are joint brokers to the Company and Beaumont Cornish Limited is the Company's Nominated Adviser.

For further information on Ariana you are invited to visit the Company's website at www.arianaresources.com.  The Company has recently updated its AIM Rule 26 section, including an update to its major shareholders list.

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Source: Ariana Resources plc via Globenewswire

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