Sibelco, one of the companies mining high-purity quartz in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has resumed operations. In an update on Thursday, the company said that production and shipments of the ...

Global semiconductor manufacturers are monitoring supplies of high-purity quartz, a material critical to the industry, after Hurricane Helene halted production at two North Carolina mines that ...

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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 Hurricane Helene SPRUCE PINE ...

The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been left battered by the storm’s heavy rains Olatunji Osho-Williams Staff ...

Flooding in North Carolina has imperiled the operations of mines that produce the world’s purest quartz sand — an irreplaceable ingredient for manufacturing components at the heart of ...

Chip Firms Watching Quartz Supply After Hurricane Shut Mines · Bloomberg Jane Lanhee Lee, Yoolim Lee and Christina Kyriasoglou Wed, Oct 2, 2024, 8:13 PM 2 min read ...

North Carolina Town That Produces Quartz Needed for Tech Products Is Devastated by Helene SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for ...

The binder utilized in the concrete is made of granite instead of traditional greenhouse-gas-emitting limestone cement. Concrete consists of three main ingredients: cement, an aggregate (such as ...

An aerial view of quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., as taken from a plane on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo: AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high ...

{copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Two devastating storms in two weeks are requiring massive recovery efforts, and some of that help is coming from New Hampshire. The focus has recently shifted ...