Permitting at Kiziltepe Completed

25 November 2008
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU



                  PERMITTING AT KIZILTEPE COMPLETED



Ariana  Resources  plc   ("Ariana"  or  "the   Company"),  the   gold
exploration company

focused on Turkey, is  pleased to announce the  receipt of its  final
operational permits

for the Kiziltepe prospect, in Balikesir Province, western Turkey.



Dr. Kerim Sener, Managing Director, commented:



"The  receipt  of  our  final  permits  at  Kiziltepe  represents   a
significant milestone in the

development of  the  project.   These permits  provide  us  with  the
freedom to plan

effectively for additional  trial mining at  this location, and  will
allow us to scale up operations quickly.



"We are in discussions with several parties on the future development
of the Kiziltepe

project.  The Company is aiming to define the most value-added  route
for the project in

the short to medium term."



Permit Status



The Kiziltepe  project  is  now fully  permitted  for  formal  mining
operations to commence.

The permits currently held at the project include:



  * Mining Permit: This permit provides permission to mine and covers
    the entire Kiziltepe vein field.
  * Environmental Permit: This ensures the project meets certain
    environmental requirements and covers the Arzu South, Arzu North
    and Banu veins.
  * Forestry Permits: These are required only in forested parts of
    the project area for which access was sought primarily for
    drilling purposes.  A larger forestry permit covers the Arzu
    North vein in which trial mining has already commenced.
  * Health and Safety Permit: This ensures the Company complies with
    certain health and safety regulations, and the permit covers the
    entire project area.
  * Blasting Permit: This provides permission to use explosives
    during mining.  This covers the entire project area but in
    practice is currently limited to an area on the Arzu South vein.



The Company  has  also  secured certain  surface  rights  which  were
announced on 18 July 2007.



Mining Status



The Company now holds  a stockpile of  approximately 2,000 tonnes  of
ore from the

Arzu North vein which was mined in accordance with Turkish mining law
by mechanical

methods prior to  receipt of the  blasting permit.  Approximately  25
tonnes of this ore was

sent for  trial  processing  at a  treatment  facility  elsewhere  in
Turkey, from which very

good recoveries of between 82.3%  and 89.7% gold were achieved.   The
Company is

presently preparing a mining plan to extract 5,000 tonnes of ore from
the Arzu South

vein by mechanical methods, assisted by blasting where  appropriate.
The intention is

that this ore will  be utilised for further  trial processing in  due
course.





Contacts:



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

Beaumont Cornish Limited           Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish

Lothbury Financial                 Tel: [phone]
Michael Padley / Louise Davis

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

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



Editors' note:



About the Kiziltepe Prospect



The  Kiziltepe  prospect  is  located  within  a  ten-year  renewable
operating licence that

forms part  of the  Company's  100% owned  Sindirgi gold  project  in
Balikesir Province,

western Turkey.  The  current JORC  resource of  186,000 ounces  gold
equivalent is

located on the Arzu South, Arzu North, Banu and Derya veins.



Kiziltepe lies  approximately 100km  east of  the one  million  ounce
vein-hosted Ovacik

gold mine and 115km northwest of the five million ounce Kisladag gold
mine. The

prospect hosts  over 20km  in strike  length of  gold-silver  bearing
low-sulphidation

epithermal quartz  veins across  an  area of  at  least 3km  by  1km.
Individual veins are

exposed for up to 750m and widths  vary between 1m and 14m. The  main
veins trend

northwest, dip to  the northeast  and are hosted  within Miocene  age
dacitic volcanic rocks.



Ariana  acquired  the  Sindirgi  Gold  Project  from  Newmont  Mining
Corporation (NYSE

& ASX:  NEM;  TSX: NMC)  in  March 2005.   Franco-Nevada  Corporation
retains the right to

a royalty of up to 2.5%  on future gold production from the  Sindirgi
gold project.



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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