Mariana Resources Ltd is an AIM and TSX quoted exploration and development company with an extensive portfolio of gold, silver and copper projects in Argentina and Chile. In southern Argentina, in addition to the Las Calandrias gold-silver discovery, the Company has the Sierra Blanca silver-gold prospect (70%); the Los Amigos joint venture (49%) with Hochschild Mining and a 160,000 Ha land package (100%) in the country. All of these projects are located in the Deseado Massif epithermal gold-silver district in mining-friendly Santa Cruz province of southern Argentina, which hosts four mines and several advanced projects. In Chile, Mariana has a joint venture with US based international mining and natural resources company Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., to explore for iron oxide-copper-gold deposits (‘IOCG’) in a 92,000 km² area (“SCM Mariana Area”) in north-central Chile along the highly prospective Atacama Fault Zone. The SCM Mariana Area includes the 44km² Buenaventura and 46km² Perro Chico IOCG projects. Mariana is also evaluating a number of gold-silver and copper-gold opportunities away from the Cliffs JV area, as part of a new initiative.



The Guardian-Our share tips for 2012...

Nick Fletcher

Aim listing mining group Mariana Resources has a number of gold and silver projects in Argentina and Chile, and recent drilling results from its Sierra Blanca site have been encouraging. AngloGold Ashanti recently showed confidence in Mariana by paying 12p a share to take a 19.9% interest, with the cash helping to fund the company's drilling programme for the next 12 months or so. This news prompted analysts at Fox Davies to put a 22p target on the shares, currently 10p. There is plenty of scope for consolidation among mining companies in the region, and in the long term Mariana may look at selling some of its projects, seek further partnerships with major mining groups or agree to a takeover.

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Capital Structure
At 31 January 2012.

Issued capital 228,740,487 Ordinary shares Unrestricted on AIM, none held in Treasury. 47,105,557 Restricted on TSX
Options 16,611,000

Significant Shareholders
The holders of more than 3% of the fully paid shares on 31 January 2011 are listed below:

Name No. of shares held % held
AngloGold Ashanti Holdings Plc 45,418,212 19.86
Hochschild Mining Holdings Limited 11,002,948 4.81
Craton Capital 8,000,000 3.50
Australian Investors P/L 7,547,500 3.30

* Percentage of shares not in public hands - Directors and management hold 4.50% of issued

StockMarketWire.com
Mariana Resources has provided an update on the ongoing diamond drill programme at the high-grade Hot Maden gold-copper project in north east Turkey.

"Exceptionally positive results continue to be generated from the ongoing drilling at Hot Maden," said CEO Glen Parsons.

"Infill drilling in the Main Zone has once again delivered Hot Maden's best hole to date, with the significant bonanza grades in HTD-71 of 69.6 m @ 62.7 g/t Au + 2.68% Cu from 210m downhole, including an impressive initial 7m at 526 g/t Au and 3.28% Cu, which further highlights the continuity of the ultra high grade gold-copper zone.

"These infill holes are effectively spaced on 25 m centres and have been designed to both increase confidence in the reported mineral resource estimate, as well as for the acquisition of geotechnical data for the ongoing mine development studies.

"Encouragingly, drilling at the current southern limit of the Main Zone resource area has also intercepted what appears to be either a deep extension or an offset to the Main Zone. The importance of this discovery is that we now see the potential to extend the Main Zone mineral resource to the south.

"Further exploration drilling in the Southern Discovery Zone, located immediately to the north of the Old Russian Mining Zone, has also delivered strong mineralisation from sulphide quartz veins and breccias which will ultimately add to the current initial inferred resource for this area.

"Exploration drilling successfully continues to work closer to, and into, the known mineralised Russian Zone further to the south.

"Technical studies related to mine development are ongoing, and the work completed will be incorporated into both the Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") and Pre-Feasibility Studies ("PFS") accordingly.

"I look forward to updating the market on the anticipated PEA results which are now expected around the end of November, along with the further pending assays and ongoing drilling activities."