US researchers using generative artificial intelligence to dream up previously unknown building block candidates.

The miner kicked off in October a restructuring process at its four loss-making mines that was expected to result in the loss of 4,095 jobs. 

Approved project will increase Julong mine's capacity to 350,000 tonnes per day by 2025, making it China's largest single copper mine.

Researchers with the US SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory explore the mechanisms that allow gold to become harder instead of falling apart like other materials when zapped with high-energy laser pulses.

Production of the metal surged 58% to 103,000 tonnes in Q4 2023 as the mine was operating near design throughput capacity by year-end.

The world's largest gold miner will use proceeds to cut debt, which stood at $8 billion at the end of 2023.