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

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America's sole source of high-purity quartz. Helene dumped more ...

Why it matters: Ultra-high-purity quartz is an essential ... with AI-fueled chip demand? Spruce Pine is a small town about two hours drive northwest of Charlotte, NC. You can get to the general ...

Mining operations for the ultra-pure quartz at Spruce Pine, North Carolina ... Still, it is confident that it can “avoid any supply disruption for our High Purity Quartz customers,” as it noted the ...

Virtually all of the world’s supply of a mineral that is critical to semiconductor production comes from one tiny town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that has been devastated by ...

The small mining town of Spruce Pine contains the world’s purest quartz — a critical ingredient in the chipmaking process. The small mining town of Spruce Pine contains the world’s purest ...

Reports also revealed that China has annually imported more than $1.5 billion of high-purity quartz sand, mainly from the Spruce Pine mine in the United States. Reports have revealed that China ...

Spruce Pine is the source of the purest natural quartz ever found on Earth.'' An estimated 70-90% of the crucibles used worldwide are made from Spruce Pine quartz, he said.

A fire in 2008 at one of the main quartz facilities in Spruce Pine for a time all but shut off the supply of high‑purity quartz to the world market, sending shivers through the industry.

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It's an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels. A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the ...