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

Sibelco, one of the companies mining high-purity quartz in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has resumed operations. In an update ...

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

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 ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz in a western North Carolina community is up and running again. Spruce Pine is a town of 2,200 residents. It's also the ...

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

The massive storm shut down two high-grade quartz mines two weeks ago. Now one of the companies that sends the key mineral to semiconductor makers is running again.

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

The facilities in Spruce Pine, now isolated and imperiled by Helene’s floods, are a vital node in the supply chain of ...

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

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