Hurricane Helene's closure of two essential quartz mines in North Carolina reveals the precarity of the solar energy product pipeline.

Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber ...

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.

The storm, the most deadly to hit the US mainland since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, flooded the mountain town of Spruce Pine last weekend, which experts say produces as much as 90 per cent of the world ...

Global supplies of microchips that feature in cars and smartphones have been threatened after the US hurricane Helene forced ...

A small town in the path of Hurricane Helene is home to mines producing around 90% of the world’s high purity quartz.

While the scale of damage remains unclear, Sibelco, a private Belgian firm, said it had temporarily stopped production - as ...

Hurricane Helene hit a quartz mine in North Carolina that is key to global semiconductor production, which could impact the ...

The tiny town is the only place on the planet with the high-quality quartz essential to semiconductor production.

Helene caused extensive damage in the Appalachian Mountains. This is an important mining area for high-purity quartz sand, ...

Companies mining high-purity quartz in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have paused operations in the aftermath of Hurricane ...