Kepez Bulk-Sample Results

3 September 2009
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

             KEPEZ METALLURGICAL AND BULK-SAMPLE RESULTS

Ariana  Resources  plc   ("Ariana"  or  "the   Company"),  the   gold
exploration and development company focused on Turkey, is pleased  to
announce  the   results   of   bulk-sampling   and   laboratory-scale
metallurgical testwork  conducted on  material  from the  Kepez  Gold
Prospect in Balikesir Province, western Turkey.

Highlights:


  * Recoveries of up to 89% and 95% on high and average grade
    material



  * High grade bulk-sample yields 16.95 g/t gold and 117 g/t silver



  * Average grade bulk-sample yields 6.83 g/t gold and 72 g/t silver



  * Thickness of mineralised broken rock estimated to be 2-3m



Dr. Kerim Sener, Managing Director, commented:
"These metallurgical results confirm our expectations that the  Kepez
mineralisation  is  metallurgically  akin  to  the  material  already
test-mined at Kiziltepe.  The bulk-samples collected  from the  Kepez
prospect have confirmed the potential for a high average grade within
the mineralised zone.  Drilling of  the area provided an estimate  of
the thickness  of the  scree covering  the vein  of about  3m,  which
confirms earlier  expectations  and demonstrates  the  potential  for
around 25,000 tonnes of broken mineralised rock.

"These results demonstrate that the Kepez prospect is likely to yield
a resource  of high  grade  material amenable  to simple  mining  and
processing at an established facility.  The resource potential of the
Kepez prospect  will  now  be  evaluated  in  future  programmes  and
integrated within  the  development  work  being  undertaken  at  the
Kiziltepe deposit."

Details of Programme

Two bulk-samples totalling approximately  100 kg were collected  from
the Kepez  prospect, which  is  located 6.5km  ENE of  the  Kiziltepe
deposit.  One  sample  contained  material  known  to  represent  the
average grade of mineralisation at the prospect (7.14g/t Au) and  the
second sample contained material representative of the highest  grade
portions of the prospect (17.21g/t  Au).  This sampling followed  the
earlier grid sampling undertaken on the prospect and detailed in  the
announcement of 13th May 2009.

These samples were processed at the Eti Gümüs A.S. ("Eti") laboratory
under similar conditions to the testwork undertaken on material  from
Kiziltepe.  The Kepez material was crushed and milled to 80%  passing
at 20 micron (the standard size  fraction used at the Eti  processing
plant).  The  material was  leached over  a period  of 32  hours  and
reagent consumption was moderate in both cases (e.g. between 0.17 and
0.51 kg/t NaCN).

The high grade sample provided a head grade of 16.95 g/t gold and 117
g/t silver and the average grade sample provided 6.83 g/t gold and 72
g/t silver.  Over the 32 hour leach period, the measured recovery  of
gold and  silver from  the  high grade  sample  was 89.0%  and  51.3%
respectively.  The recovery of gold and silver from the average grade
sample was 95.2%  and 80.6%  respectively.  These  recoveries are  in
line  with   the  recovery   of  gold   and  silver   reported   from
laboratory-scale testwork on material from the Kiziltepe deposit.

Due to the nature of the scree covering parts of the vein at Kepez, a
drilling programme was designed to  provide clarity on the  potential
thickness of  the  broken rock.   Based  on the  performance  of  the
drilling rig,  this  blanket of  broken  rock and  heavily  fractured
ground is estimated to be 2-3  m in the areas drilled.  This  matches
the figure provided by  visual estimation of  the outcrop area.   The
broken ground, containing an average surface grade of 7.14 g/t Au, is
estimated to cover an  area of 3200m2,  which suggests potential  for
about  25,000  tonnes  of  material  amenable  to  simple  mechanical
mining.  The Company is presently considering how best to calculate a
JORC compliant mineral resource for this area.


Contacts:


Ariana Resources plc               Tel: [phone]
Michael Spriggs, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director

Beaumont Cornish Limited           Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish

Alexander David Securities Limited Tel: [phone]
Nick Bealer / David Scott

Loeb Aron & Company Ltd            Tel: [phone]
Peter Freeman / Frank Lucas


Editors' note:

Dr Kerim Sener,  BSc (Hons), MSc,  PhD, is the  Managing Director  of
Ariana Resources plc.  A graduate of the University of Southampton in
Geology, he also  holds a Master's  degree from the  Royal School  of
Mines  (Imperial  College,  London)  in  Mineral  Exploration  and  a
doctorate from the University of  Western Australia.  He is a  Fellow
of The  Geological Society  of London  and has  worked in  geological
research and mineral  consultancy in Southern  Africa and  Australia.
 He has read and approved the technical disclosure in this regulatory
announcement.

About the Kepez Prospect

The  Kepez  prospect  is  located  within  the  same  36km²  ten-year
renewable  operating  licence  that  hosts  the  Company's  Kiziltepe
prospect, which forms part of the Company's 100% owned Sindirgi  gold
project in Balikesir Province, western Turkey. Kepez lies 6.5km  away
from the current  trial production  area in  the Kiziltepe  Prospect.
 Ariana is  currently assessing  the potential  of Kepez  to yield  a
small high-grade resource amenable to open-pit mining.

The prospect  contains 3km  of gold-silver  bearing  low-sulphidation
epithermal quartz veins  across an  area of  at least  2km by  0.5km.
 Individual veins are exposed for up to 600m and widths vary  between
2m and 25m.  The  main veins trend  N and NE,  and are hosted  either
within Lower  Miocene  dacitic  volcanic rocks  or  on  the  boundary
between  these  rocks  and  underlying  Upper  Cretaceous  ophiolitic
sedimentary rocks.   Three main  vein systems  have been  defined  by
geological mapping, rock-saw channel and rock-chip sampling, the most
important of which is the Karakaya Vein.

Existing drilling on  the Karakaya  Vein shows that  it dips  between
40 and 50 degrees  to the  west and  is developed  along the  contact
between underlying ophiolitic  rocks and  overlying dacitic  volcanic
rocks.  The  Karakaya  Vein was  sampled  during a  rock-saw  channel
sampling programme conducted along the vein outcrop in 2006.  Surface
results on  the Karakaya  vein  have been  encouraging over  100m  of
strike, from  which  high  grades  have  been  encountered,  although
previous follow-up drilling of the down-dip extensions have tended to
encounter lower grades.

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 exploring 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  European
Goldfields Limited in north-eastern Turkey.

The Company's  flagship  assets  are its  Sindirgi  and  Tavsan  gold
projects.  Both projects  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.  The  total  resource
inventory  of  the   Company  stands  at   401,000  ounces  of   gold
equivalent.

Loeb Aron & Company Ltd.  and Alexander David Securities 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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