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

Due to a quirk of geology, the purest quartz in all the world comes from the picturesque town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

One of the largest U.S. facilities producing IV and dialysis fluids, in western North Carolina, has temporarily closed due to ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has most of the world's high-quality quartz, a mineral essential for the semiconductors used in ...

Hurricane Helene's impact on a small North Carolina town reveals the tech industry's vulnerability to disruptions in the supply of critical minerals like quartz.

Hurricane Helene has been one of the deadliest storms in US history, massively impacting the semiconductor in North Carolina ...