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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 Hurricane Helene SPRUCE PINE ...

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Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

Hurricane Helene has halted North Carolina mining operations producing high-purity quartz used to make silicon wafers for semiconductor manufacturing. Operators Sibelco and Quartz Corp.

The small mining town hosts the world's only known source of pure quartz, a necessary component for manufacturing computer chips. Hurricane Helene unleashed catastrophic rain, wind, and flooding ...

Flooding in North Carolina has imperiled the operations of mines that produce the world’s purest quartz sand — an irreplaceable ingredient for manufacturing components at the heart of ...

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The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been left battered by the storm’s heavy rains Olatunji Osho-Williams Staff ...

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