Warrant Offer Closing Date

15 June 2009
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

                     WARRANT OFFER CLOSING DATE

Ariana  Resources  plc   ("Ariana"  or  "the   Company"),  the   gold
exploration  and  development  company   focused  on  Turkey,   draws
shareholders attention to the warrant offer to be approved by Special
Resolution at the  Annual General  Meeting ("AGM") on  the 29th  June
2009.

The Board proposes to offer share warrants to all shareholders on the
basis of 1 warrant for each 5 shares held as at 27th May 2009.  These
warrants will be for a subscription price of 3 pence and valid for 12
months from date of issue.  Each shareholder is invited to apply  for
warrants on the form provided with the Annual Report that was sent to
shareholders.  All applications need to be received by no later  than
the close of business on 25  June 2009.  An over and under  allotment
will be applied on a pro  rata basis for all warrants not  subscribed
for by the cut off date.  The warrant issue will be for a maximum  of
£284,510 of nominal share capital.

The Special Resolution will authorise the Company to issue and  allot
up to 28,451,015 warrants to existing shareholders of the Company  to
subscribe for one ordinary  share at 3 pence  for 12 months from  the
date of issue.  Such shareholders  will have received an  application
form which must be completed and returned to the registrar before the
AGM.  A copy  of this application  form is available  on the  Company
website.

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 / Libby Moss

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

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


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 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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