Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

27 June 2013
AIM: AAU

DIRECTORS' DEALINGS

HOLDING IN COMPANY

Ariana Resources plc ("Ariana" or "the Company"), the gold exploration and development company focused on Turkey, announces that it was informed yesterday that Mr Michael de Villiers, Director, purchased 3,636,360 ordinary shares in Ariana on that date at 1p per ordinary share.

Further to this purchase Mr de Villiers holds 6,735,502 ordinary shares in the Company, representing a percentage holding of 1.21% of the total issued share capital.

Ariana has been informed that Yorkville Advisors LLC no longer has an interest in the Company.

Contacts:

Ariana Resources plcTel: +44 (0) 20 7407 3616
Michael Spriggs, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director
Beaumont Cornish LimitedTel: +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt
Beaufort International Associates LimitedTel: +44 (0) 20 7382 8387
Chris Rourke / Guy Wheatley
Loeb Aron & Company Ltd.Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 1128
Frank Lucas
St Brides Media & Finance LtdTel: +44 (0) 20 7236 1177
Lottie Brocklehurst / 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 developing 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 Eldorado Gold Corporation in north-eastern Turkey.  Eldorado owns 51% of this joint venture and is fully funding all exploration work on the JV properties, while Ariana owns 49% and is the operator.

The Company's flagship assets are its Sindirgi and Tavsan gold projects which form the Red Rabbit Gold Project.  Both 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 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 south-eastern Turkey.  Ariana retains 11.5% of Tigris Resources Limited.  

Beaufort International Associates Limited and Loeb Aron & Company Ltd. 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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