Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has most of the world's high-quality quartz, a mineral essential for the semiconductors used in ...

The owner of a North Carolina quartz mine that’s a key source for high-purity quartz used in global semiconductor ...

Two facilities that produce high-purity quartz essential in semiconductors, solar panels, and fiber-optics have been shut ...

The Sibelco mine in North Carolina is one of the most crucial sites to the global production of semiconductors.

Hurricane Helene forced the shutdown of two key quartz manufacturing facilities in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, operated by ...

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

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

Those mines are now closed indefinitely, after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of water on Spruce Pine, devastating the area.

However, they remain closed as surrounding communities in a remote mountain region deal with pervasive power and water ...

Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for ...