Cartier Resumes Drilling on the Chimo Mine Property
Highlights:

Cartier Resources’ (V.ECR) announcement of a revised 43-101 Resource Estimate with over one million ounces indicated and inferred at its Chimo mine in Quebec was not actually a surprise. CEO Philippe Cloutier told motherlodetv.net what the company was going to do back in February,

Philippe Cloutier, CEO of Cartier Resources (V.ECR), understands that investors want a company to do what it says it is going to do. At the Chimo Mine project in Quebec, Cartier developed a plan which Cloutier was confident would position the past-producing mine for a new life as a gold producer.
Cartier Resources Inc. (TSX-V: ECR) (“Cartier”) has awarded InnovExplo the mandate to complete a resource estimate on the North and South Gold Corridors and a supporting NI 43 – 101 technical report for its 100% owned flagship Chimo Mine gold property located 45 kilometers east of Val-d’Or, Quebec.

Philippe Cloutier was just back from conferences in Europe and looking forward to shovelling a foot of snow from his driveway in minus 20 degree weather in Val-d’Or Quebec. He’d been in Munich and Zurich and in both places found investors anxious but willing to listen to solid resource stories.

Junior mineral explorers tend to rush out news of their discoveries and their resource estimates. A 43-101 Resource Estimate encourages a company’s investors and, in theory, makes it easier to raise money to continue development. But the market has to be able to hear the news.