ARIANA RESOURCES : Directors' Dealings

14 January 2009
AIM / PLUS Markets: AAU

                         DIRECTORS' DEALINGS

Further to the announcement made earlier today, Ariana Resources  plc
("Ariana" or  "the Company"),  the gold  exploration and  development
company focused  on Turkey,  is pleased  to announce  the  Directors'
participation as  set out  below  in the  placing of  50,000,000  new
Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each at a price of 1 pence per share ("the
Placing"), raising  £500,000 before  expenses.   The  Directors  have
subscribed on the same terms as all the other parties who  subscribed
under the Placing.

Certain of the Directors and related parties will now hold a total of
5,859,500 shares corresponding to 4.12% of the Company.

Following the  Placing,  the  Directors'  shareholdings  will  be  as
follows:


+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|             | Placing   | Shareholding | Percentage holding       |
|             | Shares    | following    | of     issued     shares |
|             |           | Placing      | following Placing        |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------------------------|
| Kerim Sener | 1,000,000 | 3,650,000    | 2.57%                    |
| *           |           |              |                          |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------------------------|
| Michael     | 150,000   | 387,500      | 0.27%                    |
| Spriggs     |           |              |                          |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------------------------|
| Michael  de | 500,000   | 1,822,000    | 1.28%                    |
| Villiers    |           |              |                          |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


* Kerim  Sener's  shareholding  currently  includes  shares  held  by
related parties.

The Placing is conditional  upon admission to trading  on AIM of  the
new Ordinary Shares.  Application  will be made  to the London  Stock
Exchange for the  new Ordinary Shares  to be issued  pursuant to  the
Placing to be  admitted to trading  on AIM.  It  is anticipated  that
Admission will  become effective  and dealings  will commence  on  20
January 2009.  The new Ordinary Shares  will rank pari passu, in  all
respects, with the  existing Ordinary  Shares that  are currently  in
issue and are traded  on AIM.  Following  admission of these  shares,
there will be a total of 142,255,078 Ordinary Shares in issue.


Contacts:


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

Beaumont Cornish Limited           Tel: [phone]
Roland Cornish

Lothbury Financial                 Tel: [phone]
Michael Padley / Louise Davis

Alexander David Securities Limited Tel: [phone]
Nick Bealer / David Scott

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


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 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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