Due to a quirk of geology, the purest quartz in all the world comes from the picturesque town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

Hurricane Helene's closure of two essential quartz mines in North Carolina reveals the precarity of the solar energy product pipeline.

Hurricane Helene has been one of the deadliest storms in US history, massively impacting the semiconductor in North Carolina ...

Les mines de quartz de Spruce Pine sont à l'arrêt à cause de l'ouragan Hélène, et menacent le secteur de la tech ou du ...

New Zealand Exchange-listed advanced parts manufacturer Rakon says the semiconductor industry is monitoring quartz supply ...

One of the largest U.S. facilities producing IV and dialysis fluids, in western North Carolina, has temporarily closed due to flooding from Hurricane Helene. The damage to Baxter International’s plant ...

One of the largest U.S. facilities producing IV and dialysis fluids, in western North Carolina, has temporarily closed due to ...

Looking in from the outside, Intel ($INTC) seems to have been the star of its own disaster movie. Even when good news or a ...

A week after Tropical Storm Helene hit NC, storm survivors in Yancey and Mitchell counties talk with CPP. Their stories and a ...

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. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not counting ...

Will Hurricane Helene Negatively Impact Machine Vision? Mining and refining facilities in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which ...