The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been ...
Hurricane Helene has devastated Spruce Pine, North Carolina, home to the world’s only source of high-purity quartz crucial ...
The storm, the most deadly to hit the US mainland since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, flooded the mountain town of Spruce Pine last weekend, which experts say produces as much as 90 per cent of the world ...
The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting ...
Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber ...
The facilities named as The Quartz Corp and Sibelco, located in Spruce Pine, halted their operations prior to the incoming ...
However, they remain closed as surrounding communities in a remote mountain region deal with pervasive power and water ...
Hurricane Helene devastated the town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, shutting down mining operations for pure quartz, a ...
Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the ...
Those mines are now closed indefinitely, after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of water on Spruce Pine, devastating the area.