VANCOUVER - Six months after announcing massive cost overruns had forced his company to suspend construction at the Galore Creek copper-gold mine, the president and chief executive of NovaGold Resources Inc. said a fresh set of plans contemplates a mine with an even greater mineral output.

“It will be a more robust project angling to reduce capital costs per pound of copper or per ounce of gold produced,” Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse said yesterday in an interview ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today. “So you may look at increasing throughput, not decreasing it. You want to look for opportunities to reduce net capital.”

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