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 ...

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy Facility issues have hindered the global supply chain of quartz before. In 2008, a fire at a Spruce Pine quartz refinery “temporarily brought ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Google Maps 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 ...