Arian Resources Corp. announced, in association with Sinomine International Exploration (Hong Kong) Holding Co. Limited, an update on the progress towards commencing the drill program at the Kacinar gold project located in Albania.

Sinomine has optioned the Kacinar project from Arian and has the ability to earn up to a 60% interest in Arian's wholly owned subsidiary Jab Resources Shpk (Jab) which holds the project. Kacinar Drill Program: Arian reported that with the Chinese New Year celebrations and associated Spring Festival now over the Sinomine drill crew will arrive in Albania this Wednesday February 12th to commence the drill program on the Kacinar gold project. To date four priority targets have been selected for drill testing from the 2011 Induced Polarization ground geophysical survey.

Drill pads have already been constructed for two of these. In total the 2,000 meters of drilling is planned for the Kacinar project. The first hole is targeting co-incident induced polarization resistivity and chargeability anomalies defined for 550 metres along the survey line.

The modelled coincident anomalies commence at a depth of around 100 metres and extend to a depth of at least 250 metres. The drill hole is planned to be 400 metres in length. It is anticipated that this drilling program will require up to four months to complete and is budgeted to cost $1,000,000.

This program is being funded by Sinomine and upon the spending of the $1,000,000, Sinomine will have earned a 10% interest in Arian's subsidiary JAB which holds the project. Kacinar Gold Project: Based on the geological, geochemical and geophysical results obtained to date, the company has unearthed what appears to be a new gold-bearing greenstone belt. Where suitable tectonic and intrusive activity has occurred greenstone belts can contain substantial gold deposits.

Greenstone-hosted gold deposits currently provide over 13% of global gold production, with examples such as the Kirkland Lake, Malartic and Detour Lake mines within the Abitibi belt in Canada, the Tasiast mine in Mauritania, and the Fimiston mine in Kalgoorlie, Australia.Analysis of drill core and surface trench samples from this area has resulted in 61 samples with grades greater than one gram per ton gold. Of these, 8 samples have between five and ten grams per tonne gold and 12 samples have greater than ten grams per tonne gold. The high assay was 39.4 grams per tonne gold over one metre on drill hole GZJ1017.

Significant intersections include 1.51 grams per tonne gold over 14 metres thickness on drill hole GZJ1012 and 7.01 grams per tonne gold over six metres on drill hole GZJ1011. Note that these thicknesses are not necessarily true widths.