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No power but only minor damage: Spruce Pine quartz mine owner updates Helene recovery
The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its ... In 2008, a fire at a local quartz refinery “temporarily ...
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Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing
High-purity quartz is vital for various stages of chip production ... to the global semiconductor supply chain. In 2008, a fire in the town disrupted the flow of high-purity quartz to the world ...