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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 2 place · 10/12/2024 21:34 EDT

North Carolina Maker of High-Purity Quartz Back Operating After Hurricane

Thursday the Associated Press reported:

One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely damaged by Hurricane Helene is operating again. Sibelco announced on Thursday that production has restarted at its mining and processing operations in Spruce Pine, located 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Asheville. [Per Wikipedia, its pre-hurricane population was 2,175.] Production and

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