Appointment of Directors

Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd

                              (AIM:CGH)

                    ("Chaarat" or "the Company")

                      Appointment of Directors

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 26 October 2009

The Board announces the appointment of Tao Lua and David Tang as
Non-Executive Directors with effect from 23 October 2009.

These appointments are made in accordance with the subscription
agreement with China Nonferrous Metals Int'l Mining Co. Ltd
("CNMIM"), announced on 13 July 2009, under which CNMIM has the right
to appoint two directors to the board of the Company as long as their
interest in Chaarat does not fall below 10%.  CNMIM's current
shareholding represents 19.9% of the Company's issued share capital.

Tao Lua is the Chairman of CNMIM and President of China Nonferrous
Metal Mining (Group) Co. Ltd ( the parent company of CNMIM), and is
appointed as the Deputy Chairman of Chaarat and will sit on the
remuneration committee. Mr Lua is a senior economist with over 30
years experience in the nonferrous metals industry in China, and was
a Vice Director of Beijing General Research Institute for Nonferrous
Metals. Mr Lua was also the Chairman of Committee of Supervisors and
Vice President of Aluminium Corporation of China Ltd. (CHALCO), a
company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Stock
Exchange.

David Tang is President of CNMIM and is appointed to the audit
committee. In the early 1990s Mr Tang pioneered the trading system
for the first nonferrous metals future commodity exchange in China,
worked for several years in Canada in the investment management and
consulting industry before returning to China to take up office at
CNMIM. Mr Tang also holds a Master of Science degree.

 Dekel Golan, CEO of Chaarat, comments "I am delighted to welcome our
new Directors to the Board and look forward to their support and
experience as we develop our Chaarat Gold Project".

Disclosure of Directorships under Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules

Tao Lua, aged 56, is or has been a director of the following
companies during the previous five years:

Current directorships

China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co. Ltd.
China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering and
Construction Co. Ltd.
ORD River Resources Limited
China Nonferrous Metals Int'l Mining Co. Ltd.
Zambia-China Economic & Trade Cooperation Zone Development Limited

Directorships held within the previous five years

NFC Africa Mining Co.


Weili (David) Tang, aged 43, is or has been a director of the
following companies during the previous five years:

Current directorships

China Nonferrous Metals Int'l Mining Co. Ltd.
ORD River Resources Limited

There are no other matters which are required to be announced with
regard to these appointments pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of
the AIM Rules for Companies.

About the Chaarat Gold Project
The Chaarat Project is situated within the Middle Tien Shan Mountains
of Kyrgyzstan which form part of the Tien Shan gold belt.
Mineralisation occurs and resources have been defined in three
sub-parallel zones including the Main Zone, the Contact Zone and the
Tulkubash Zone. At the completion of the 2008 exploration season, a
Mineral Resource of 3.34Moz at a grade of 4.30 g/t gold (JORC
compliant in the Indicated and Inferred categories) had been
delineated. The Company's exploration programme is aimed at
increasing the confidence levels in this Resource through infill
drilling and increasing the resource through down-dip and
along-strike extension drilling.

About Chaarat Gold Holdings or the Company
Chaarat Gold Holdings is an exploration company founded for the
purpose of developing the Chaarat Licence Area. Chaarat was admitted
to AIM on 8 November 2007.

Disclaimer

This press release includes forward-looking statements. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other important factors beyond Chaarat's control
that would cause the actual results, performance or achievements of
Chaarat to be materially different from future results, performance
or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on numerous
assumptions regarding Chaarat's present and future business
strategies and the environment in which Chaarat will operate in the
future. Any forward-looking statements speak only as at the date of
this document. Chaarat expressly disclaims any obligation or
undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any
forward-looking statements contained in this document to reflect any
change in Chaarat's expectations with regard to these or any change
in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements
are based. As a result of these factors, the events described in the
forward-looking statements in this press release may not occur either
partially or at all.

 Enquiries


Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd
c/o Central Asia Services Ltd [phone]
Dekel Golan                   [e-mail]
Linda Naylor                  [e-mail]

Canaccord Adams Limited       [phone]
Mike Jones
Robert Finlay

Smith's Corporate Advisory    [phone]
Dominic Palmer-Tomkinson      [e-mail]

Conduit PR                    [phone]
Jos Simson                    [e-mail]

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