Helene shut down the Spruce Pine mines that produce ultra-pure quartz, and some fear that could cause shortages and higher ...

The Sibelco Spruce Pine Foundation will provide long-term support for the Spruce Pine community through an initial $1M donation as seed money.

Due to a quirk of geology, the purest quartz in all the world comes from the picturesque town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The mineral, created deep within the earth when silicon-rich magmas cooled ...

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

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

The largest Spruce Pine mine is owned by Sibelco, a private Belgium mineral company that is Mitchell County’s top employer. Sibelco told The News & Observer Monday that the company has ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Quartz mining suspension in the wake of the storm leads to potential supply chain disruptions and price surges in the ...