Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd : Change of Adviser

Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited

("Chaarat" or the "Company")

Appointment of Numis Securities Limited as Nominated Adviser and broker

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (19 January 2012)

Chaarat (AIM - CGH), the AIM quoted exploration and development company with assets in the Kyrgyz Republic, is pleased to announce the appointment of Numis Securities Limited as Nominated Adviser and sole broker to the Company with immediate effect.

Enquiries:

Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited	[phone]
c/o Central Asia Services Limited
Dekel Golan   CEO Linda Naylor  FD	[e-mail] [e-mail]
Numis Securities Limited	[phone]
Alastair Stratton, Stuart Skinner (NOMAD) James Black (Broker)
Bankside Consultants	[phone]
Simon Rothschild	[e-mail]

Note to Editors:

About Chaarat Gold

Chaarat Gold is an exploration and development company operating in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Company's main activity is the development of the Chaarat Gold Project situated within the Middle Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan, which form part of the Tien Shan gold belt. The Company has delineated a JORC compliant mineral resource of 4.736Moz at a grade of 4.28g/t gold. Chaarat's key objective is to become a low cost gold producer; with initial production from the Tulkubash project, targeting increased combined annual production of over 200,000 ounces as the full project comes on stream.

Further information is available at www.chaarat.com

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Source: Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd via Thomson Reuters ONE

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