Spruce Pine just got hit by Helene. The fallout on the tech …
WEB4 days ago · A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry. Hurricane Helene dropped more than 2 feet of rain on Spruce Pine, N.C. The town is home to one of the world's ...
How a tiny town hit by Helene could upend the global ... - NBC News
WEB1 day ago · Mines in Spruce Pine produce the world’s purest form of quartz, which plays a central role in chip manufacturing. Now, the town’s exceedingly valuable supply of high-purity quartz is at risk ...
No power but only minor damage: Spruce Pine quartz mine …
WEBStory by Brian Gordon. • 13m. T he world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its shuttered Spruce Pine, North ...
Spruce Pine, which produces quartz needed for tech products, is ...
WEB2 days ago · 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 ...
Helene shuts down Spruce Pine, NC mine that is pivotal to world’s ...
WEB4 days ago · The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels...
Spruce Pine mine operator says no power but only minor damage …
WEB1 day ago · The company said all its employees and contractors had been accounted for following last week’s storm, which dumped more than two feet of rain on Spruce Pine and flooded the local North Toe ...
Devastation from Hurricane Helene could bring semiconductor
WEB2 days ago · The Spruce Pine mines provide an estimated 80% to 90% of the world’s high-purity quartz — experts say the exact amount is proprietary and unknown — supplying semiconductor manufacturers like ...
Mine Vital for Making AI Chips Shuts After Being Hit by Hurricane ...
WEB4 days ago · The town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is home to two mines that are major sources of high-purity quartz, a key material for making semiconductors. ... Ed Conway, a Sky News journalist and ...
Hurricane Helene barreled through a crucial chip mining area in …
WEB5 days ago · Hurricane Helene brought catastrophic damage and flooding to Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which is home to the world’s purest quartz used in chipmaking.
Helene kills 64, submerges historic village; hundreds of ... - NBC News
WEBSep 28, 2024 · Three other North Carolina locations posted rain amounts of 20 inches or greater: Spruce Pine (23 inches), Foscoe (21), and Boone (20), according to the summary.