The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, Belgian mining company Sibelco announced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the global supply of semiconductor chips, announced its ...

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 and ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has most of the world’s high-quality quartz, a mineral essential for the semiconductors used in smartphones, laptops, and AI chips. Spruce Pine, North Carolina received ...

Nordic Mining ASA (DE:7NM0) has released an update. Nordic Mining ASA will proceed with the development of a quartz deposit in Norway’s Kvinnherad Municipality through its subsidiary Nordic Quartz AS, ...

When I set out to write a story about visiting Crystal Peak, a former mine site now managed by the U.S. Forest Service just east of Truckee, California, I worried it would be a bust. Either the ...

Operations at a crucial facility for the semiconductor industry in North Carolina have now been stopped for five days as the state recovers from the devastation brought on by the remnants of Hurricane ...

Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, Belgian mining company Sibelco announced Thursday it has restarted operations in the Western North Carolina town ...

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 endured “minor damage,” ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, ...