Appointment of Joint Broker

22 May 2008
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

                     APPOINTMENT OF JOINT BROKER

Ariana  Resources  plc   ("Ariana"  or  "the   Company"),  the   gold
exploration and development company focused on Turkey, is pleased  to
announce  the  appointment  of  Alexander  David  Securities  Limited
("Alexander David")  to  act  as  the  Company's  Joint  Broker  with
immediate effect.  Alexander David will work as Joint Broker with our
existing brokers.

Contacts:


Ariana Resources plc               Tel: [phone]
Michael Spriggs, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director

Beaumont Cornish Limited           Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish

Bankside Consultants               Tel: [phone]
Michael Padley / Louise Davis

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

City Capital Corporation Limited   Tel: [phone]
Charles Dampney

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 remote-sensing database.

The Company's  flagship asset  is the  Sindirgi Gold  Project,  which
targets a series of prospects, within a prolific mineralised district
in western  Turkey.   The  project hosts  over  45km  of  gold-silver
bearing epithermal  quartz veins.   This project  is presently  being
assessed as to its economic merits.

Loeb Aron  &  Company  Ltd., City  Capital  Corporation  Limited  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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