An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the ...

With the mud ankle-deep inside her music store, and the water stains climbing 8 feet high on the walls, Angie Buchanan said goodbye to 50 years of teaching music in Spruce Pine. Then she walked ...

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 ...

The quartz mines of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, part of the global computer chip supply chain, have suspended their operations due to the damage and aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Mines located ...

The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels ...

US military officials have released video of an encounter near Alaska in which a Russian aircraft swoops across the nose of an American F-16 jet. The manoeuvre, known as "headbutting", has drawn ...

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America’s sole source of high-purity quartz. Helene dumped ...

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In the mountains of North Carolina, the town of Spruce Pine plays an outsized role in one of the most critical sectors of the global economy: semiconductor manufacturing. The ultra-pure quartz found ...

After 44 years of service, the U.S. Air Force has officially retired its last KC-10 Extender, an aerial refueling and cargo aircraft. The KC-10, based on the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, played a ...