SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz in a western North Carolina community is up and running again. Spruce Pine is a town of 2,200 residents.
Global semiconductor manufacturers are monitoring supplies of high-purity quartz, a material critical to the industry, after Hurricane Helene halted production at two North Carolina mines that ...
Chip Firms Watching Quartz Supply After Hurricane Shut Mines Sibelco, Quartz mines suspended operations after Helene Two mines produce over 80% of world’s high-purity quartz ...