Significant Shareholding

Ariana Resources PLC
06 July 2007




6 July 2007
AIM: AAU


                            SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDING


Ariana Resources plc ('Ariana' or 'the Company') announces that on 20 June 2007
it has been informed that Barclays PLC through Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd holds
the total voting rights attached to 4,239,583 ordinary shares in the share
capital of the Company representing 9.03% of the total voting rights in the
Company.



Contacts:
Ariana Resources plc
Michael Spriggs, Executive Chairman                  Tel: [phone]
Kerim Sener, Managing Director                       Tel: [phone]
Beaumont Cornish Limited                             Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish
Bankside Consultants
Michael Padley / Louise Davis                        Tel: [phone]



About Ariana Resources


Ariana is a dynamic exploration company focused on the discovery and development
of epithermal gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits with multi-million
ounce potential within the Tethyan metallogenic belt of Turkey. The Company has
a portfolio of prospective licences covering 1,820km2, selected on the basis of
its advanced in-house remote sensing database.

The Company's flagship asset is the 235km2 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.

Ambrian Partners Limited and King & Shaxson Capital 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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