The Sibelco mine in North Carolina is one of the most crucial sites to the global production of semiconductors.

The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting ...

The owner of a North Carolina quartz mine that’s a key source for high-purity quartz used in global semiconductor ...

Operations at a crucial facility for the semiconductor industry in North Carolina have now been stopped for five days as the ...

The facilities named as The Quartz Corp and Sibelco, located in Spruce Pine, halted their operations prior to the incoming ...

Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday ahead of the storm ...

However, aside from damages to their facilities and infrastructure, the more critical issue they need to address is to ...

The Quartz Corp, which also owns a mine in Spruce Pine, has said its operations have been halted. “Operations at our facilities were stopped on September 26th in preparation of the event and ...

Kaitlin McKeown [email protected] Free of impurities, Spruce Pine quartz has been crucial ... Compared to Sibelco’s sites, The Quartz Corp mine is positioned closer to the North Toe ...

disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels and semiconductor chips. The largest Spruce Pine mine is owned by Sibelco, a private Belgium mineral company that is ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina ... activities to restart operations as soon as we can,” the mine owner, Sibelco, wrote in an update Friday.