Issue of Equity, Warrant Grant and Total Voting...

8 September 2011
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

                                ISSUE OF EQUITY

                               GRANT OF WARRANTS

                              TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

The  Board  of  Ariana  Resources  plc  ("Ariana"  or  "the  Company"), the gold
exploration  and development company focused on  Turkey, today announces that it
has  received requests  for the exercise  of a total of 2,262,632 warrants which
were  granted as  a one  for one  with placing  shares announced  on 18 February
2011, exercisable  at 4.75p each within twelve months of date of admission ("the
Exercise"),

Application  will be made for the  2,262,632 new ordinary shares issued pursuant
to  the Exercise, which will rank pari passu, with all existing ordinary shares,
to  be admitted to  trading on AIM.   Admission is expected  to take place on or
around 14 September 2011 ("Admission").

In  addition, and pursuant to  the arrangements made at  the time of the placing
referred to above, the Company have issued 24,513,158 warrants on the same terms
to Rivington Street Holdings.

At  Admission, the Company's  issued share capital  will consist of 256,198,650
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 will be
256,198,650.

The  above figure of 256,198,650 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 / Felicity Geidt



 St Brides Media & Finance Ltd     Tel: [phone]

 Hugo de Salis / Susie Geliher










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