Ariana Resources plc : Issue of Equity

29 January 2015
AIM: AAU

ISSUE OF EQUITY
TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Ariana Resources plc ("Ariana" or "the Company"), the gold exploration and development company focused on Turkey, today announces the issue of 7,021,833 new ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.1p each at 1p per share in lieu of fees for services and facilities.

Application is being made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the 7,021,833 new ordinary shares, which will rank pari passu with all existing ordinary shares, to trading on AIM  ("Admission").  Admission is expected to take place on or around 4 February 2015.

Further to Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 652,837,974 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.1p each, with voting rights ("Ordinary Shares").  The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.  Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 652,837,974.

Contacts:

Ariana Resources plc	Tel: [phone]
Michael de Villiers, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director
Beaumont Cornish Limited	Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt
Beaufort Securities Limited	Tel: [phone]
Saif Janjua
Loeb Aron & Company Ltd.	Tel: [phone]
John Beresford-Peirse / Dr. Frank Lucas
St Brides Partners Limited	Tel: [phone]
Susie Geliher / Lottie Brocklehurst

About Ariana Resources:

Ariana is an exploration and development company focused on 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 which 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.

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Source: Ariana Resources plc via Globenewswire

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