High-purity quartz is one of the few critical minerals dominated by the US, with the bulk of global production located around just one town in North Carolina. The Chinese discoveries, made several ...

Beijing's new find may seem like just sand, but it’s poised to shake up global technology supply chains and unsettle ...

Places like Maui and Asheville, North Carolina, rebuilding after wildfires and hurricanes, are doing so with a mind to sustainable tourism ...

Before Helene, the towns and valleys of Western North Carolina echoed with ... Corp., which produces high-quality quartz for semiconductor chips near Spruce Pine, and Baxter Healthcare, which ...

High-purity quartz is needed for the creation of ultra-refined polysilicon wafers – a core element in both the solar and semiconductor sectors. And the Spruce Pine Mining District in North Carolina ...

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China has reportedly discovered new deposits of high-purity quartz, a mineral that plays a small but important role in the production of semiconductors and solar panels. The country’s Ministry ...

Tucked into the valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a mine in Spruce Pine, N.C. closed for several weeks following ... blasting rock are increasingly well-known, particularly in North Carolina. Long ...

There are 44 bunkers on the course that are filled with spruce pine sand. This type of sand is named after a mining district in North Carolina, and it isn't actually sand. This quartz is a waste ...