The Western North Carolina town possesses the world’s most pure quartz, making its two mine operations essential to the ...

One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors from mines in a western North ...

One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. The News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer have a collection of stories about ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber-optic cables have been shut down by ...

The owner of a North Carolina quartz mine that’s a key source ... Cleanup and repair activities are underway at the Spruce Pine mine and restoring power remains crucial, Sibelco said in a ...

The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its shuttered Spruce Pine, North Carolina, mines have endured “minor ...

The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its shuttered Spruce Pine, North Carolina, mines have endured “minor damage,” ...

Deep in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina lies the small town of Spruce Pine. This town, which measures just 3.9 square miles, contains the planet's purest quartz ...