PERMITTING AT KIZILTEPE COMPLETED

Ariana Resources plc ("Ariana" or "the Company"), the gold exploration company 

focused on Turkey, is pleased to announce the receipt of its final operational permits 

for the Kiziltepe prospect, in Balikesir Province, western Turkey.  

Dr. Kerim Sener, Managing Director, commented:

"The receipt of our final permits at Kiziltepe represents a significant milestone in the 

development of the project.  These permits provide us with the freedom to plan 

effectively for additional trial mining at this location, and will allow us to scale up operations quickly.

"We are in discussions with several parties on the future development of the Kiziltepe 

project.  The Company is aiming to define the most value-added route for the project in 

the short to medium term." 

Permit Status

The Kiziltepe project is now fully permitted for formal mining operations to commence.  

The permits currently held at the project include:

• Mining Permit: This permit provides permission to mine and covers the entire Kiziltepe vein field.
• Environmental Permit: This ensures the project meets certain environmental requirements and covers the Arzu South, Arzu North and Banu veins.
• Forestry Permits: These are required only in forested parts of the project area for which access was sought primarily for drilling purposes.  A larger forestry permit covers the Arzu North vein in which trial mining has already commenced.
• Health and Safety Permit: This ensures the Company complies with certain health and safety regulations, and the permit covers the entire project area.
• Blasting Permit: This provides permission to use explosives during mining.  This covers the entire project area but in practice is currently limited to an area on the Arzu South vein.

The Company has also secured certain surface rights which were announced on 18 July 2007.  

Mining Status

The Company now holds a stockpile of approximately 2,000 tonnes of ore from the 

Arzu North vein which was mined in accordance with Turkish mining law by mechanical 

methods prior to receipt of the blasting permit.  Approximately 25 tonnes of this ore was 

sent for trial processing at a treatment facility elsewhere in Turkey, from which very 

good recoveries of between 82.3% and 89.7% gold were achieved.  The Company is 

presently preparing a mining plan to extract 5,000 tonnes of ore from the Arzu South 

vein by mechanical methods, assisted by blasting where appropriate.  The intention is 

that this ore will be utilised for further trial processing in due course.

Contacts:

Ariana Resources plc
Tel: 020 7407 3616
Michael Spriggs, Chairman
 
Kerim Sener, Managing Director
 
 
 
Beaumont Cornish Limited
Tel: 020 7628 3396
Roland Cornish
 
 
 
Lothbury Financial
Tel: 020 7011 9411
Michael Padley / Louise Davis
 
 
 
Loeb Aron & Company Ltd
Tel: 020 7628 1128
Peter Freeman / Frank Lucas
 
 
 
Alexander David Securities Limited
Tel: 020 7448 9820
Nick Bealer / David Scott
 

Editors' note:

About the Kiziltepe Prospect

The Kiziltepe prospect is located within a ten-year renewable operating licence that 

forms part of the Company's 100% owned Sindirgi gold project in Balikesir Province, 

western Turkey.  The current JORC resource of 186,000 ounces gold equivalent is 

located on the Arzu South, Arzu North, Banu and Derya veins.

Kiziltepe lies approximately 100km east of the one million ounce vein-hosted Ovacik 

gold mine and 115km northwest of the five million ounce Kisladag gold mine. The 

prospect hosts over 20km in strike length of gold-silver bearing low-sulphidation 

epithermal quartz veins across an area of at least 3km by 1km. Individual veins are 

exposed for up to 750m and widths vary between 1m and 14m. The main veins trend 

northwest, dip to the northeast and are hosted within Miocene age dacitic volcanic rocks.

Ariana acquired the Sindirgi Gold Project from Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE 

& ASX: NEM; TSX: NMC) in March 2005.  Franco-Nevada Corporation retains the right to 

a royalty of up to 2.5% on future gold production from the Sindirgi gold project.

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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