Cartier Resources Receives Environmental and Social Responsibility Award

VAL-D'OR, QUÉBEC--(Marketwire - Nov. 24, 2011) - Cartier Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ECR) (« Cartier ») is pleased to announce that it received the e3 Plus Award for environmental excellence in exploration by the Association de l'exploration minière du Québec (AEMQ) at its annual Quebec Exploration Conference held in Quebec City. The e3 Award recognizes a company's high level of environmental and social responsibility. The e3 toolkit can be found at http://www.pdac.ca/e3plus/index.aspx.

The e3 toolkit is designed to assist exploration companies in continuously improving their social, environmental, and health and safety performance as well as to comprehensively integrate these three aspects into all their exploration activities.

The AEMQ groups over 1500 individual and corporate members. Its mission is to promote sustainable and responsible exploration of mineral resources of Quebec and their essential contribution to Quebec's economy.

Cartier Resources is proud it was selected for this year's e3 Award, "This award reflects the willingness of our board of directors, management and employees in actively applying the e3 guidelines and principles".

About Cartier Resources Inc.

Cartier is an exploration company focused on precious and base metals and currently holds significant land holdings in the prolific Abitibi Gold Belt in Quebec. The company's portfolio of properties consists of wholly-owned projects which are managed by a team of geologists who have a proven track record of making significant discoveries.