Holding in Company

Ariana Resources PLC
13 August 2007


                                                                   

13 August 2007
AIM: AAU


                               HOLDING IN COMPANY


Ariana Resources plc ('the Company'), the gold exploration company focused on
Turkey, announces that it received notification on 10th August 2007 that
following a purchase of 900,000 Ordinary Shares of 1p ('the Shares'), Paul
Curtis, together with his brother Nick Curtis, now owns 1,600,000 Shares,
representing a holding in the Company's issued share capital of 3.4%.

Contacts:


Ariana Resources plc
Michael Spriggs, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director                   Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
Beaumont Cornish Limited                         Tel: [phone]

Roland Cornish
Bankside Consultants
Michael Padley / Louise Davis                    Tel: [phone]


Editors' note:


About Ariana Resources


Ariana is a dynamic exploration company focused on the discovery and development
of epithermal gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits with multi-million
ounce potential within the Tethyan metallogenic belt of Turkey. The Company has
a portfolio of prospective licences covering 1,820km2, selected on the basis of
its advanced in-house remote sensing database.


The Company's flagship asset is the 235km2 Sindirgi Gold Project, which targets
a series of prospects, within a prolific mineralised district in western Turkey.
The project hosts over 45km of gold-silver bearing epithermal quartz veins.


Ambrian Partners Limited and King & Shaxson Capital Limited 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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