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

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

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

Sibelco today announced the restart of production at its Spruce Pine high purity quartz mining and processing operations following the disruption caused by Hurricane Helene. The company previously ...

The quartz mines of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, part of the global computer chip supply chain, have suspended their ...

Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday ahead of the storm ...

The high-purity quartz from Spruce Pine’s mines is key for the production of semiconductors — the brains inside computing devices — as well as solar panels, fiber-optic cables and other ...

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America’s sole source of high-purity quartz. Helene dumped ...

Operations at a quartz mine in western North Carolina have been shut down for more than five days after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of rain on the town of Spruce Pine, washing out roads and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two main companies at the Spruce Pine pegmatite complex—roughly 40 kilometers long by 16 kilometers wide, according to a 1962 survey—are Quartz Corp and Unimim, a subsidiary of the global ...