A raw material that comes from the small North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine is key to powering most of your electronics. Helene shut down the mines that produce ultra-pure quartz, raising ...

A raw material coming from the small North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine is the key to powering most of our electronics. Ultra-pure quartz is used in semiconductor production, which is ...

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 ...

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