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Spruce Pine supplies around 70 percent of the naturally occurring HPQ that is needed for computing devices and products. The site’s market position and significance were underlined in 2019 when ...

Chautauqua County’s airports are at the forefront of efforts to help deliver supplies and monetary donations to North Carolina and Florida in the wake of Hurricane Helene and Milton. The county is ...

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In addition to this, our teams are joining the local taskforces to try to restore the most basic services and bring further supplies to Spruce Pine,” The Quartz Corp said in a statement.

Facility issues have hindered the global supply chain of quartz before. In 2008, a fire at a Spruce Pine quartz refinery “temporarily brought production to a halt and impacted the market ...

Those mines are now closed indefinitely, after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of water on Spruce Pine, devastating the area. And with this singular supply of ultra-pure quartz cut off for the ...

The two firms play a huge role in the global supply chain that ultimately ends in smartphones and powering cutting-edge AI systems. The ultrapure quartz mined at Spruce Pine is essential for ...

Russia and Brazil also supply high-quality quartz, he says, but “Spruce Pine has far and away the [largest amount] and highest quality.” Conway says without super-pure quartz for the crucibles ...

Hurricane Helene has devastated Spruce Pine, North Carolina ... as no alternative quartz supply exists. Experts predict a four to six-week delay before operations resume, though recovery depends ...