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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-23-000341"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NG"
cik: "0001173420"
company_name: "NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC"
filed_at: "2023-01-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T12:56:20.235529+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Donlin Gold reports high-grade gold intercepts from 141-hole 2022 drill program; 2023 budget $34M

## Summary
- Final assay results include 17.20m at 11.11 g/t gold (4.25m at 36.91 g/t) in hole DC22-2130.
- Program of 42,331m completed ahead of schedule, under budget; results reconcile favorably with resource model.
- Permitting advances: air quality draft permit issued by ADEC; ADNR re-location plan finalized without appeal.
- Donlin Gold 2023 budget set at ~$34M (100% basis), funded equally by NOVAGOLD and Barrick.
- 11 Shared Value Statements signed with Y-K region villages; community support from Crooked Creek.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-23-000341
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NG
- cik: 0001173420
- company_name: NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC
- filed_at: 2023-01-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1173420/000117184323000341/0001171843-23-000341-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1173420/000117184323000341/f8k_011923.htm

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