Copper Canyon Resources/NovaGold to form Copper Canyon Joint Venture

Cranbrook, B.C., 15 February, 2008: Copper Canyon Resources Ltd. (CPY:TSX-V) and NovaGold Canada Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of NovaGold Resources Inc. (AMEX, TSX:NG), have agreed to form a 40/60 joint venture to explore  and develop the Copper Canyon property, located adjacent to the Galore Creek Partnership’s Galore Creek project, located in north-western British Columbia, Canada. The Galore Creek Partnership is a 50/50 partnership between Teck Cominco and NovaGold.

NovaGold has satisfied all requirements under an option agreement with Copper Canyon which saw the completion of $3,000,000 in exploration expenditures, delivery of 296,000 NovaGold shares and cash payments of $250,000. A 2% net smelter royalty (“NSR”) is held by B. Kreft, one-half of which may be purchased at any time for $1,000,000.

Work on the CopperCanyon property has been carried out annually since 2004, when the property was first optioned to SpectrumGold and subsequently transferred to NovaGold. After completing an 8-hole program in 2004, NovaGold commissioned an independent engineering firm who reported a significant inferred category resource estimate as reported previously by the Company (see news release Nov 19, 2007).

A new resource estimate is underway based on 2007 drilling results and will be released in due course.

Drilling to date at CopperCanyon has indicated the presence of both a large, bulk-tonnage copper-gold mineralized system and zones of high-grade gold mineralization. The best hole drilled in the Galore Creek district was CC1990-02, which intersected 270.8m (898’) grading 1.92 g/tonne Au, 22.28 g/tonne Ag and 1.05% Cu. Other notable intersects include hole CC05-030, which returned 2.5m grading 50.6 g/t Au, and hole CC07-36 which returned 31.9 g/t Au over 2.5 m from 183.5m to 186.0m and 26.8g/t Au over 2.7m from 211.8m to 214.5m (true thicknesses undetermined) 

Since acquiring the property, NovaGold has completed 22 drill-holes, with a total of 44 holes drilled on the property since 1990. A compilation map outlining drill-hole locations can be found here:  Copper Canyon Drill-hole Location Map

About Copper Canyon Resources

Copper Canyon Resources was created by way of a Plan of Arrangement on June 9, 2006. Shareholders of Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. approved the plan to reorganize the Company’s mineral property assets in an effort to maximize shareholder value. Under the terms of the arrangement, three of Eagle Plains’ projects: CopperCanyon, Severance and Abo (Harrison) Gold, were transferred into CopperCanyon on a one-for-one share basis.

This news release has been reviewed and approved by Tim J. Termuende, P.Geo., hereby designated as a “Qualified Person” under National Instrument 43-101.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Signed

“Tim J. Termuende”

President and CEO

For further information, please contact Mike Labach at 1 866 HUNT ORE (486 8673)

Email: mgl@copcanyon.com or visit our website at http://www.copcanyon.com

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