Cartier Commences Drilling on Silver Zone at Cadillac Extension

Cartier Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ECR) ("Cartier") announces that it has
commenced drilling on the Cadillac Extension project located 115 kilometers east
of Val-d'Or in the province of Quebec. Drilling will focus on testing the
continuity at depth of the mineralization outline at surface on the Langlade
Deposit (refer to October 6th, 2011 press release). Ten holes are planned for a
total of 1 200 meters. 


The targeted silver enriched polymetalic zone (copper-zinc-silver-gold) was
delineated at surface over 4000 square meters (refer to Figure 1) and consists
of disseminated to locally massive sulphides. Drill targets were designed by
factoring all the assay results, three dimensional modeling of the mineralized
zone and recent geophysical results. The induced polarization ("IP") geophysical
survey over the zone outlined an anomaly (refer to Figure 2) that correlates
with the mineralization and supports field observations that the potential for
the extension of mineralization remains open at depth as well as to the
north-west and south. 


"We are pleased to be drilling this very robust target" commented Philippe
Cloutier, President and CEO of Cartier, adding, "This program will rapidly help
determine if there is potential for Langlade at depth and further orient
drilling in 2012".


Figure 1: Location of selected silver-rich composites at Langlade and proposed
drilling: http://file.marketwire.com/release/fig1en.pdf


Figure 2: Geophysics: IP results: http://file.marketwire.com/release/fig2en.jpg

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

The exploration program and the technical information presented in this press
release have been reviewed and approved by Mr. Philippe Berthelot, P. Geo., and
Vice President Exploration for Cartier. Mr. Berthelot is a qualified person as
defined by National Instrument 43-101. The Cadillac Extension exploration
program is conducted under the supervision of Mr. Berthelot. Cartier has
implemented and adheres to a strict Quality Assurance/Quality Control program
which includes mineralized standards and blanks for each batch of samples. Assay
samples are taken from drill core sawed in half with one half sent to a
commercial laboratory and the other half retained for future reference. Analyses
are either performed by Techni-lab S.G.B. Abitibi inc. (ACTLABS) in
Sainte-Germaine, Quebec, or by ALS-Chemex in Val-d'Or, Quebec, both accredited
laboratories.