Total voting rights

2 October 2008
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Ariana Resources plc ("the Company"), the gold exploration and
development company focused on Turkey, announces, for the purposes of
the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Services
Authority, the following:

As at the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share
capital consists of 92,255,078 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 is 92,255,078.

The above figure of 92,255,078 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

        Lothbury Financial                 Tel: [phone]
        Michael Padley / Louise Davis

        Loeb Aron & Company Ltd            Tel: [phone]
        Peter Freeman / Frank Lucas

        Alexander David Securities Limited Tel: [phone]
        Nick Bealer / David Scott


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 Joint Venture with European
Goldfields Limited in north-eastern Turkey.

The Company's flagship assets are its Sindirgi and Tavsan gold
projects.  Both projects contain 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.  These core
projects, which are separated by a distance of 75km, are presently
being assessed as to their economic merits.  The total resource
inventory of the Company stands at 401,000 ounces of gold
equivalent.

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.

Ends

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