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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 shuttered Spruce Pine, North Carolina, mines have endured “minor ...
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Largest Spruce Pine quartz mine ‘ramping up’ after Helene battered mountain town
Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, Belgian mining company Sibelco announced Thursday it has restarted operations in the Western North Carolina town ...