2 January 2018
AIM: AAU

TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Ariana Resources plc ("the Company"), the gold exploration and development company focused on Turkey, announces, for the purposes of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority, the following:

As at the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 1,059,677,937 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.1p each, with voting rights ("Ordinary Shares"). The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.  Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 1,059,677,937.

The above figure of 1,059,677,937 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Contacts:

Ariana Resources plc	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7407 3616
Michael de Villiers, Chairman
Kerim Sener, Managing Director
Beaumont Cornish Limited, Nomad	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt	www.beaumontcornish.com
Beaufort Securities Limited, Joint Broker	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7382 8300
Jon Belliss
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited, Joint Broker	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7886 2500
Adam James / Tom Salvesen

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