Total voting rights

11 June 2008
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

                         TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Ariana Resources  plc  ("the  Company"),  the  gold  exploration  and
development company focused on Turkey, announces, for the purposes of
the Disclosure  and  Transparency  Rules of  the  Financial  Services
Authority, the following:

As at  the date  of  this announcement,  the Company's  issued  share
capital consists of 89,855,078 ordinary  shares with a nominal  value
of 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 89,855,078.

The above  figure  of  89,855,078  Ordinary Shares  may  be  used  by
shareholders in the Company as  the denominator for the  calculations
by which they  will determine if  they are required  to notify  their
interest in, or a change to  their interest in, the share capital  of
the Company under  the Financial Service  Authority's Disclosure  and
Transparency Rules.

Contacts:


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

Beaumont Cornish Limited           Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish

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

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

City Capital Corporation Limited   Tel: [phone]
Charles Dampney

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



Editors' note:

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 remote-sensing database.

The Company's  flagship asset  is the  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.   This project  is presently  being
assessed as to its economic merits.

Loeb Aron  &  Company  Ltd., City  Capital  Corporation  Limited  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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