Chaarat announces additional encouraging Drilli...

For immediate release 27th November 2008




                      Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd

                    ("Chaarat" or "the Company")

 Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd (AIM:CGH) reports significant mineralised
intersections in the C5300 Project Area at the Chaarat Gold Property

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (27 November 2008).

Chaarat is pleased to announce additional encouraging drilling
results from surface and underground drilling at the C5300 Project
Area on the Contact Zone at its 100% held, 604 square kilometre,
Chaarat Gold Property in Kyrgyzstan. The Chaarat property had, at the
end of 2007, an audited JORC indicated and inferred resource of
3.14Moz at 4.44g/t.


Highlights

Drill hole 535          7.96m   at  5.03 g/t Au
Drill hole 535          2.27m   at  5.99 g/t Au
Drill hole UG179    4.19m   at  7.39 g/t Au
Drill hole UG180    1.04m   at 12.30 g/t Au
Drill hole UG183    7.70m   at  4.12 g/t Au
Drill hole UG185   22.41m  at  4.25 g/t Au
Drill hole UG185   7.13m    at  6.38 g/t Au
Drill hole UG186  10.52m   at  4.06 g/t Au
Drill hole UG188  10.89m   at  4.09 g/t Au
Drill hole UG188    3.35m   at  7.63 g/t Au
Drill hole UG190  11.02m   at  4.82 g/t Au
Drill hole UG190   8.50m   at  6.05 g/t Au
Drill hole UG190    3.15m   at  7.49 g/t Au
Drill hole UG191    3.03m   at  4.73 g/t Au

The results reported here are from five surface exploration drill
holes and ten underground drill holes on the C5300 Project Area,
which have been drilled recently and for which results have been
received. The C5300 Project Area forms a part of the Contact Zone, on
which a previous JORC indicated and inferred resource was calculated
at the end of 2007 as 912,000 oz at an average grade of 4.44 g/t over
a strike length of 450m.  Drill results at that time allowed
calculation to a depth of up to 320m.  The Contact Zone is one of
three major areas of mineralisation already identified on the Chaarat
project.

The ten underground drill holes were drilled from drill chamber-2,
which is accessed from the adit and was constructed in the hanging
wall, 100m from the mineralised zone. The significant intersections
of those ten holes are presented in Table-1.

The 2008 drill programme has extended the drilled depth of the
mineralised zone for a further 260m down dip increasing the
continuous extent of the mineralisation to a depth of 520m from the
surface but only 230m below the level of the valley floor. The
mineralisation in the C5300 Project Area has now been drilled over a
strike length of 490 metres, and remains open both along strike and
down dip.

In addition, the widths and grades of these intersections reported
here are consistent with the results of previous drilling on this
project area, and indicate a 10% increase in strike length and a 62%
increase in depth extension.  The results of these new drill results
will be incorporated into the updated resource estimate, which is to
be undertaken in early 2009.


The Contact Zone

Mineralisation in the  Contact Zone is  hosted in a  wide shear  zone
which is known to extend for at least 10 km on strike on the  contact
between the underlying Ordovician  Chaarat Formation (siltstones  and
sandstones)  and   the   overlying   Devonian   Tulkubash   Formation
(quartzites). The wide mineralised zones dip at 50-60 degrees to  the
NW. The gold mineralisation  is associated with sulphides,  sericitic
alteration and minor quartz veinlets.

Within the Contact Zone, the Company has delineated three Project
Areas - C5300, C4600 and C4000. The project area numbers represent
the on-strike location, in metres, on a base line parallel to the
Contact Zone. During the 2008 exploration season the Company has
drilled all three Projects Areas (in addition to other Project Areas
within the Chaarat licence area) from both surface and underground
(see previous Press releases on the Company's web site
www.chaarat.com).


Dekel Golan, CEO of Chaarat, comments "These results confirm
management's view of the significant potential of the Chaarat
deposit, which continues to demonstrate excellent continuity with
depth and strike extensions, and persistent wide intersections that
will  allow us to pursue, with increased confidence, our intention to
establish a low cost bulk mining operation on these wide zones of
mineralisation".


Table 1: Significant drill intervals from the C5300 Project Area
drilling, 2008.


            Drilled From   Drilled To  Length   True      Au     Ag
Hole ID       (metres)      (metres)  (metres)  width   ( g/t) ( g/t)
                                               (metres)
Surface
DH-531         83.50         92.50      9.00     4.50    2.51  30.87
including      89.50         92.50      3.00     1.50    4.69  78.25

DH-532         133.50        138.00     4.50     2.07    2.12  17.00
DH-532         142.50        147.00     4.50     2.37    2.29   2.83
DH-532         169.50        172.50     3.00     1.58    2.03   3.45

DH-535         193.50        247.50    54.00    20.47    3.53  22.47
including      211.50        216.00     4.50     1.70    5.50  14.60
including      219.00        240.00    21.00     7.96    5.03  21.10
including      219.00        225.00     6.00     2.27    5.99  57.30
including      228.00        235.50     7.50     2.84    6.07   6.56

DH-536         169.50        190.50    21.00    10.98    3.19  32.66
including      172.50        175.50     3.00     1.57    5.35  33.35
including      187.50        190.50     3.00     1.57    6.10  22.80

DH-537           51           55.5      4.50     2.95    3.23  28.67
DH-537          168          172.5      4.50     2.95    3.07   12.6
including      169.5         172.5      3.00     1.97    4.17  17.75

Underground
UGDH-179       219.00        235.00    16.00     8.37    3.09   6.08
including      220.00        223.00     3.00     1.57    4.35  10.17
including      232.00        235.00     3.00     1.57    6.54   5.03
UGDH-179       263.00        271.00     8.00     4.19    7.39   5.38
including      265.00        269.00     4.00     1.57   12.76  10.25

UGDH-180       114.00        117.00     3.00     1.56    7.47   2.60
UGDH-180       274.50        282.50     8.00     4.16    3.09  14.30
including      278.50        280.50     2.00     1.04    4.50  26.25
UGDH-180       326.50        328.50     2.00     1.04   12.30  12.45

UGDH-182       244.00        248.00     4.00     1.97    4.40   0.83

UGDH-183       246.00        284.00    38.00    16.25    3.36   9.15
including      246.00        264.00    18.00     7.70    4.12   6.16
including      254.00        257.00     3.00     1.28    8.93   8.93
UGDH-183       273.00        276.00     3.00     1.28    4.24   7.87

UGDH-185       169.50        202.50    33.00    22.41    4.25   8.90
including      186.00        196.50    10.50     7.13    6.38   5.06

UGDH-186       109.50        138.00    28.50    22.20    3.45  10.22
UGDH-186       109.50        123.00    13.50    10.52    4.06  14.01
UGDH-186       132.00        138.00     6.00     4.02    4.75   8.40

UGDH-187       181.50        196.50    15.00     6.16    3.04  10.99
including      183.00        187.50     4.50     1.85    4.14  10.17
including      190.50        195.00     4.50     1.85    4.53  16.90
UGDH-187       208.50        211.50     3.00     1.44    4.25   5.10

UGDH-188       240.00        265.50    25.50    14.24    3.58  16.18
including      246.00        265.50    19.50    10.89    4.09  18.95
including      259.50        265.50     6.00     3.35    7.63  34.58
UGDH-188       276.00        279.00     3.00     1.68    4.82   5.55

UGDH-190       154.00        171.50    17.50    11.02    4.82  17.11
Including      157.00        170.50    13.50     8.50    6.05  21.36
Including      160.50        163.50     3.00     1.89    9.95   9.37
Including      164.50        169.50     5.00     3.15    7.49  25.66
UGDH-190       248.00        250.15     2.15     1.35    4.15  21.10

UGDH-191       204.00        209.00     5.00     3.03    3.03  11.36
UGDH-191       247.00        270.00    23.00    13.94    2.59   3.39
including      247.00        253.00     6.00     3.64    3.82   4.13
including      269.00        274.00     5.00     3.03    4.73   4.80


QA/QC Procedures: Sampling Methodology and Quality Control
All samples are sent to a laboratory in Kyrgyzstan, Alex Stewart,
accredited by the UK Accreditation Service, for sample preparation
and assays. Genalysis, Australia, a NATA ISO/IEC 17025 accredited
laboratory for analysis is being used for QA/QC check of the analysis
of Alex Stewart. 20% check samples in form of 2 Standards, 1 Blank
and 1 Duplicate in a batch of 20 samples are being used for quality
check of Alex Stewart assay.


Competent Person
The Competent  Person  with  overall responsibility  for  this  press
release is Mr.  Sunit Patel,  M.Sc (Geology),  FGS, GSSA,  who is  an
employee of Chaarat Gold.  Mr. Patel is an exploration geologist with
21 years of experience  in the resource  industry who has  sufficient
experience relevant  to  the  style of  mineralisation  and  type  of
deposit under consideration and was supervisor to the work subject of
this release.


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.  At the
completion of the 2007 exploration season, a Mineral Resource of
3.14Moz at a grade of 4.41 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 herein to reflect any change in
Chaarat's expectations with regard thereto 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                            Tel: +44 (0)
20 7499 2612
            Dekel Golan
[e-mail]
            Harry Lopes
[e-mail]

Canaccord Adams Limited                                Tel:  +44 (0)
20 7050 6500
            Mike Jones
[e-mail]

Smith's Corporate Advisory                             Tel: +44 (0)
20 7239 0140
            Dominic Palmer-Tomkinson
[e-mail]

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