An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, ...
Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has most of the world’s high-quality quartz, a mineral essential for the semiconductors used in smartphones, laptops, and AI chips. Spruce Pine, North Carolina received ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its ...
The small mining town of Spruce Pine contains the world’s purest quartz — a critical ingredient in the chipmaking process. The small mining town of Spruce Pine contains the world’s purest quartz — a ...
Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, Belgian mining company Sibelco announced Thursday it has restarted operations in the Western North Carolina town ...
The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its shuttered Spruce Pine, North Carolina, mines have endured “minor damage,” ...
An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction ...