NovaGold
Launches Social Media Presence and New Website
December
6, 2010 - Vancouver, British Columbia - NovaGold Resources Inc. (NYSE-AMEX: NG, TSX:
NG) invites investors and community stakeholders to visit the Company's new
website at www.novagold.com and to
connect with NovaGold at its new social media sites on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and
the Corporate Blog.
One of
NovaGold's core values is communication. We are committed to open and honest
communication within the Company, with shareholders and with local communities.
NovaGold's senior team frequently attends industry and investor conferences and
meets with institutional investors around the world, and NovaGold's technical
team works at project sites and speaks at industry conferences. The Company published
its first sustainability report in 2010 and continues to expand its
sustainability and reporting initiatives. We would like to share information
about these events and initiatives with our investors and community
stakeholders, and are introducing new communication forums that allow
stakeholders to engage more effectively with the NovaGold team.
The new
website design is more interactive, with interviews and webcasts, a calendar of
upcoming events, project highlights, an expanded responsible mining section, an
opportunity to meet the NovaGold team, and NovaGold news releases and corporate
and financial reports. The Ask the CEO section
provides answers to the most common questions and you can submit a question for
NovaGold's President & CEO, Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse. All questions will be
answered and the most common and perceptive questions will be added to the
website. Of course, what other people are saying about the Company can often be
just as informative as what we're saying about ourselves, so we've included
media coverage about NovaGold and interviews with our senior team. And to put
it all in context, an industry news section offers insight into industry and
global economic factors that may have an influence on NovaGold.
NovaGold's
new Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pages communicate this information in a more
informal fashion, and the Corporate Blog offers deeper insight into news and
events that affect NovaGold and the mining industry. We hope that our retail
investors and community partners will visit these sites and post their comments
and questions, allowing us the opportunity to engage with the individuals that
are so crucial to NovaGold's success. Our intention is to give stakeholders a
venue to communicate with the NovaGold team. We will listen to your questions
and comments and consider your suggestions as we continue to advance our
projects and expand our sustainability programs.
"Social
media gives us an exciting opportunity to provide new forums for investor and stakeholder
engagement," said Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse. "NovaGold is committed to
open, two-way communication, and we hope our investors and community partners
will take this opportunity to engage with the Company and provide their
feedback and questions. On behalf of the NovaGold team, I extend my thanks to
our investors and partners for their loyalty and support, and we look forward
to a prosperous New Year."
About
NovaGold
NovaGold is
a precious metals company engaged in the exploration and development of mineral
properties in Alaska, U.S.A. and British Columbia, Canada. The Company is
focused on advancing its two core properties, Donlin Creek and Galore Creek,
with the objective of becoming a low-cost million-ounce-a-year gold producer,
and offers superior leverage to gold with one of the largest reserve/resource
bases of any junior or mid-tier gold company. NovaGold has a strong track
record of expanding deposits through exploration success and forging
collaborative partnerships, both with local communities and with major mining
companies. The Donlin Creek project in Alaska, one of the world's largest
undeveloped gold deposits, is held by a limited liability company owned equally
by NovaGold and Barrick Gold U.S. Inc. The Galore Creek project in British Columbia,
a large copper-gold-silver deposit, is held by a partnership owned equally by
NovaGold and Teck Resources Limited. NovaGold also owns a 100% interest in the
high-grade Ambler copper-zinc-gold-silver deposit in northern Alaska and has
other earlier-stage exploration properties. NovaGold trades on the TSX and
NYSE-AMEX under the symbol NG. More information is available at www.novagold.com or by emailing info@novagold.net.
NovaGold
Contact
Rhylin
Bailie
Director, Communications & Investor Relations
604-669-6227 or 1-866-669-6227