Issue of Equity

21 April 2011
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

                                ISSUE OF EQUITY

                              TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

The  Board  of  Ariana  Resources  plc  ("Ariana"  or  "the  Company"), the gold
exploration and development company focused on Turkey, today announces the issue
of  483,333 new ordinary shares of 1p each in  the capital of the company at 6p
each to Rivington Street Sales and Conferences Limited  in settlement of certain
invoiced services.


Application  will be  made for  the new  ordinary shares,  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 28 April 2011 ("Admission").

At  Admission, the Company's  issued share capital  will consist of 250,920,008
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
250,920,008  .

The  above figure of 250,920,008 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.



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Contacts:

 Ariana Resources plc                     Tel: [phone]

 Michael Spriggs, Chairman

 Kerim Sener, Managing Director



 Beaumont Cornish Limited                 Tel: [phone]

 Roland Cornish/Felicity Geidt



 Alexander David Securities Limited       Tel: [phone]

 David Scott



 Loeb Aron & Company Ltd                  Tel: [phone]

 Jonathan Willis-Richards / Frank Lucas



 St Brides Media & Finance Ltd            Tel: [phone]

 Hugo de Salis

 Susie Geliher



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 a
Joint   Venture  with  European  Goldfields  Limited  in  north-eastern  Turkey.
 European  Goldfields owns  51% of this  joint venture  and, as the operator, is
fully  funding all  exploration work  on the  JV properties  until delivery of a
feasibility study.

The  Company's  flagship  asset  is  the  Red Rabbit project, which contains the
Kiziltepe  and  Tavsan  sectors.   The  project  contains 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.  The Kiziltepe and Tavsan sectors, which are separated
by  a distance of 75km, are presently being assessed as to their economic merits
and  now form part of  a Joint Venture with  Proccea Construction Co.  The total
resource inventory of the Company stands at 448,000 ounces of gold equivalent.

Ariana   also   has   a   strategic   investment  in  Tigris  Resources  Limited
(www.tigrisresources.com),  a private Jersey-based exploration company, which is
focused  on the exploration of copper  and gold deposits in southeastern Turkey.
 Ariana retains 15% of Tigris Resources Limited.

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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