29 April 2016
AIM: AAU
CONVERSION OF WARRANTS
TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS
Ariana Resources plc ("Ariana" or "the Company"), announces that pursuant to the receipt of a notice of exercise of warrants, it has issued 766,667 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Warrant Shares") at a price of 0.99 pence per Warrant Share to Loeb Aron & Co.
Application has been made for the Warrant Shares, which will rank pari passu with all existing ordinary shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to take place on or around 6 May 2016.
Further to Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 809,875,123 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 809,875,123.
Contacts:
| Ariana Resources plc | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7407 3616 |
| Michael de Villiers, Chairman | |
| Kerim Sener, Managing Director | |
| Beaumont Cornish Limited | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 3396 |
| Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt | |
| Beaufort Securities Limited | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7382 8300 |
| Jon Belliss | |
| Loeb Aron & Company Ltd. | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 1128 |
| John Beresford-Peirse | |