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MNN's most popular stories of 2017

The 20 most-read stories on MNN in 2017

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1. Worker killed at Yandicoogina

2. FMG exec killed in plane crash

3. Friedland sees copper 'nightmare'

4. Mini-boom underway in WA

5. Warning to gold miners

6. Bonus sex payment revelation and cobalt at Sub-Economic Resources NL

7. World's most valuable mine in Australia

8. Iron ore monster lurks

9. The top ASX undeveloped projects

10. Eastern Goldfields forced into liquidation

11. Kirkland Lake bound for ASX

12. Battery breakthrough - in zinc 

13. Rio director quits after fraud charge

14. Funding pitch for 'discovery of century'

15. Kakula a high-grade monster

16. New WA gold miner emerges

17. Kumova backs Century reboot

18. Barrick, Goldcorp in major consolidation

19. Good times emerging in former boom town

20. 'This thing is a monster': SolGold

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