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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 small mining town of Spruce Pine contains the world’s purest quartz — a critical ingredient in the chipmaking process. The small mining town of Spruce Pine contains the world’s purest quartz — a ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — Flooding in a small town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, could send shockwaves through the global semiconductor industry. Spruce Pine is a town of 2,200 residents. It's also ...

The owner of a North Carolina quartz mine that’s a key source for high-purity quartz used in global semiconductor manufacturing said its operations sustained only minor damage in the wake 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 ...