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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris led Republican Donald Trump by a marginal three percentage points - 46% to 43% - as the two remain locked in a close race to win the Nov. 5 U.S ...

Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change A national Times/Siena poll found Kamala Harris narrowly leading Donald Trump. Voters were more likely to see her, not Mr. Trump, as a ...

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