Spruce Pine just got hit by Helene. The fallout on the tech …
WEB6 days ago — Hurricane Helene dropped more than 2 feet of rain on Spruce Pine, N.C. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high-purity quartz, which is used to manufacture silicon chips and...
How a tiny town hit by Helene could upend the global ... - NBC News
WEB3 days ago — Mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, produce the world’s purest form of quartz, which plays a central role in chip manufacturing. Quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., on Monday. Gary D. Robertson ...
Hurricane Helene Shutters 'Critical' Quartz Mines That Power the …
WEB4 days ago — 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
North Carolina town that produces quartz needed for tech …
WEB5 days ago — SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — 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 with no reopening date in sight.. Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday ahead of the storm that swept away whole communities ...
A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt …
WEB6 days ago — Hurricane Helene dropped more than two feet of rain on Spruce Pine North Carolina. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high purity quartz— which is used to manufacture...
A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt …
WEBSep 30, 2024 — Hurricane Helene dropped more than two feet of rain on Spruce Pine North Carolina. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high purity quartz— which is used to manufacture...
Devastation from Hurricane Helene could bring semiconductor
WEB4 days ago — And while quartz is abundant around the world, the kind of ultra-high-purity quartz mined in Spruce Pine is not. The Spruce Pine mines provide an estimated 80% to 90% of the world’s high-purity ...
Hurricane Helene barreled through a crucial chip mining area in North …
WEB6 days ago — Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead and catastrophic damage stretching across the state’s mountain towns. The...
Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the …
WEB6 days ago — Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech supply chain potentially starved of an ingredient vital for...
Helene devastates town that produces quartz needed for tech - Spectrum News
WEB4 days ago — 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; Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday
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