ARIANA RESOURCES PLC

Director's Dealing • Dec 27, 2017

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27 December 2017

AIM: AAU

DIRECTOR'S DEALINGS

The Company announces that Michael de Villiers, the Company's Chairman, on 22 December 2017 purchased 2,400,000 ordinary shares in the Company at 1.25 pence per ordinary share.  Further to this purchase, Mr de Villiers' holding is now as described below:

Name	Number of ordinary shares purchased	Total Shareholding further to the purchase	Percentage of enlarged share capital
Michael de Villiers	2,400,000	39,080,000	3.69%

Market Abuse Regulation

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR").

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
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7886 2500
Adam James / Tom Salvesen

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail in respect of the Director's Dealings. 

1

Details  of  the  person  discharging  managerial  responsibilities  /  person  closely associated

a)

Name

Michael de Villiers

2

Reason for notification

a)

Position / status

Director

b)

Initial notification

/Amendment

Initial

3

Details of the issuer,  emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Ariana Resources plc

b)

LEI

213800LVVY7GZY21LH22

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description  of  the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in Ariana Resources plc

ISIN GB00B085SD50

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of new ordinary shares as described above

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)	Volumes(s)
1.25 pence	2,400,000

d)

Aggregated information

n/a

e)

Date of the transaction

22 December 2017  

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

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Source: Ariana Resources plc via Globenewswire*