NEW YORK (TheStreet ) — NovaGold is the sexy, high profile junior gold miner in Alaska, but investors shouldn’t forget about its nearby competitor International Tower Hill or kid with the bad reputation down the block Northern Dynasty

All three junior gold companies have big deposits in Alaska and all have risk.

As the below chart shows, NovaGold, International Tower and Northern Dynasty mirrored each other last year until September, when NovaGold broke out on takeover rumors that helped push the company to a 125% return for 2010. International Tower Hill, on the other hand, returned only 38%, while Northern Dynasty jumped 67.5%.

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