Cartier Resources Inc. announced that a drill program is currently underway on the Benoist property. The drilling objective is to intersect, at a vertical depth between 400 m and 600 m, the extension of the Pusticamica gold deposit and the extensions of the new gold zone discovered in 2012. The work, consisting of 6 drill holes totalling 4,200 m, will be completed in late March 2013. The new 2012 gold zone is positioned 450 m below the Pusticamica deposit. It consists of high gold grades up to 24.5 g/t Au over 3.0 m, enclosed within a gold-bearing envelope with drilled grades on the order of one gram of gold over intervals of more than 100 m. The Benoist property is 65 km northeast of the town of Lebel-sur-Quévillon, 25 km from the Bachelor
gold mine in Desmaraisville, and 25 km from the Gonzague-Langlois zinc-copper mine belonging to Nyrstar.