AGM Statement

29 June 2009
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU
 
                            AGM STATEMENT
 
Ariana  Resources  plc   ("Ariana"  or  "the   Company"),  the   gold
exploration and development company focused on Turkey, confirms  that
all of the resolutions  put to shareholders  at the Company's  Annual
General Meeting held today were  duly passed.  The Chairman,  Michael
Spriggs made the following comments:
 
"2008 was a year of significant progress for the Company and we  have
maintained the  pace  of this  progress,  despite the  trying  market
conditions which unfolded late last year.  Importantly, we have taken
the step of moving from a pure exploration company to an explorer and
developer of gold resources in Turkey.
 
"We currently hold a  gold equivalent JORC  resource of over  400,000
ozs and  are focusing  our development  efforts on  the Sindirgi  and
Tavsan projects  in  western  Turkey.  At  the  Sindirgi  Project  we
commenced trial mining and processing at Kiziltepe.  Also, the recent
sampling at Kepez has provided  further encouragement and we are  now
planning to drill this prospect.   The first production of gold  from
the Kiziltepe trial mine was announced to shareholders this  morning.
 I would  like  to  take  the lead  in  congratulating  the  team  on
achieving this historic milestone.  We  also wish to thank our  trial
mining/processing partners, Eti Gümüs A.S., for their efforts and  we
look  forward  to  developing  our  working  relationship   further.
Discussions are currently  underway for an  extension to the  initial
trial at Kiziltepe.  Moreover, an interest has been expressed by both
parties in working together  to formalise a  partnership on both  the
Sindirgi and Tavsan projects.
 
"The invaluable experience gained from  trial mining has helped  your
Company to re-evaluate its strategic  options for the development  of
the Sindirgi and Tavsan projects.   We are currently considering  the
parallel development  of both  projects,  whereby high-grade  ore  is
mined from Kiziltepe and trucked approximately 125km to a  heap-leach
at Tavsan.   In this  sense, the  two deposits  are considered  as  a
single integrated project, with a current Measured and Indicated gold
equivalent resource of 230,000 oz at a blended grade of 3.8 g/t  Au.
Ariana intends  to  pursue  the  advancement of  this  option  via  a
feasibility study based on a conceptual production rate of 30,000  oz
per year  over 7  years.  The  Company has  provisionally named  this
project 'Kizil Tavsan' (Red Rabbit) and  will be referred to as  such
in future announcements.
 
"The Company has  also taken  the strategic  decision to  re-initiate
innovative grassroots exploration in Turkey, with the primary aim  of
making a truly new  gold deposit discovery and  the secondary aim  of
identifying satellite resources for the Red Rabbit project to  secure
a project  life in  excess  of 10  years.  Ariana's  management  team
believes  that  there   remains  serious   opportunity  to   identify
undiscovered deposits in the region, and your Company is  positioning
itself accordingly.   Meanwhile,  our  Joint  Venture  with  European
Goldfields in northeastern Turkey  continues to make new  discoveries
of its own.   The recently identified  high-grade Salinbas Target  on
the periphery of the Ardala  porphyry system demonstrates the  merits
of well-funded methodical exploration.   The early identification  of
prospectivity in the region surrounding the Ardala copper-gold system
by the  Ariana team  is proof  positive of  the targeting  techniques
employed by  your  Company, and  the  success of  the  Joint  Venture
exploration  team.    We  are,   therefore,  confident   of   further
exploration success.
 
"Our intention is to grow your  Company through the success of  these
new exploration activities and via  mine development at our  advanced
projects.  To achieve the kick-start that this ambitious  two-pronged
strategy will require, we will  be pursuing an appropriate  financing
policy in the months ahead."
 
Contacts:
 
Ariana Resources plc               Tel: 020 7407 3616
Michael Spriggs, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director
 
Beaumont Cornish Limited           Tel: 020 7628 3396
Roland Cornish
 
Lothbury Financial                 Tel: 020 7011 9411
Michael Padley / Libby Moss
 
Alexander David Securities Limited Tel: 020 7448 9820
Nick Bealer / David Scott
 
Loeb Aron & Company Ltd            Tel: 020 7628 1128
Peter Freeman / Frank Lucas
 
Editors' note:
 
Dr Kerim Sener,  BSc (Hons), MSc,  PhD, is the  Managing Director  of
Ariana Resources plc.  A graduate of the University of Southampton in
Geology, he also  holds a Master's  degree from the  Royal School  of
Mines  (Imperial  College,  London)  in  Mineral  Exploration  and  a
doctorate from the University of  Western Australia.  He is a  Fellow
of The  Geological Society  of London  and has  worked in  geological
research and mineral  consultancy in Southern  Africa and  Australia.
 He has read and approved the technical disclosure in this regulatory
announcement.
 
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.
 
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