Over the past 13 years NovaGold Resources Inc. has grown its resource base from 500,000 ounces of gold to more than 17 million ounces of gold reserves, 14 million ounces of gold resources, plus 150 million ounces of silver and 9 billion pounds of copper. While the company intends to continue to add to its stores of metals in the ground, its primary objective is to begin extracting these reserve...