It's involved in the potentially lucrative Donlin mine in Alaska, but it's looking like it might be too expensive to harvest gold there — as well as at another NovaGold Resources Inc. (USA) (NYSEMKT:NG) property. The company hasn't given up, but its stock has burned not just small investors but even some hedge fund bigwigs such as John Paulson. Seabridge Gold, Inc. (USA) (NYSE: SA ) fared relatively better, falling just 20%. Some of its operations in Canada have been yielding better-than-expected results, while its KSM Gold project in British Columbia is promising and progressing, featuring gold, silver, and copper. The company's strategy explicitly includes trying to avoid share dilution. It's still operating in the red, though, so tread carefully. Each of the companies above is on the small side, with market caps recently below $1 billion.