Hurricane Helene's devastating impact on a small town in North Carolina is feared to have far-reaching consequences for the global technology industry, potentially disrupting the supply of a crucial ...

Virtually all of the world’s supply of a mineral that is critical to semiconductor production comes from one tiny town in the ...

Hurricane Helene devastated the town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, shutting down mining operations for pure quartz, a ...

The hurricane damaged hundreds of cars at a single dealership and shutdown two mines key to semiconductor chip production.

But fears about a serious disruption to global chipmaking following Hurricane Helene may be overstated. High-purity quartz ...

Operations at two critical North Carolina facilities that mine high-purity quartz, remain suspended following the impact of ...

Following at least 178 deaths and billions in damage from Hurricane Helene throughout six states in the southeast US, at ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is known for producing the high-quality mineral used in most computer chips, solar panels and fiber optics. It was largely flattened by floods after the storm.

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

As a result of the hurricane, two North Carolina mines, which produce high-purity quartz, were forced to shut down.

The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been ...

Those mines are now closed indefinitely, after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of water on Spruce Pine, devastating the area.