SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community ...

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 ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...

People across the world rely on the small town of Spruce Pine even if they don’t realize it. The area is home to one of the world’s most important supplies of high-quality quartz, which is ...

“Yet if you want to get high-purity quartz — the kind you need to make those crucibles without which you can’t make silicon wafers — it has to come from Spruce Pine.” An aerial look at ...

30, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson) (Gary D. Robertson) SPRUCE PINE, N.C. – One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech ...