High-quality quartz is the cornerstone of the semiconductors operating nearly every tech gadget worldwide. Cellphones, solar panels and artificial intelligence all rely on this resource. However, such ...

Growing Construction Industry: The expanding construction industry, projected to reach USD 14.4 trillion by 2030, drives demand for quartz in residential and commercial buildings due to its durability ...

Quartz crystal outcroppings can be found all over ... an even greater demand for quartz thanks to a burgeoning consumer electronics market, as well as continued expansion of the telephone network ...

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 semiconductor makers are monitoring supplies of high-purity quartz, a material critical to the industry, after ...

Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the ...

Vitreous silica is the generic name for silica glass while manufacturers refer to the element as fused quartz or fused silica. Melting of a naturally occurring substance, known as crystalline silica, ...

A lack of water at the point of collision resulted in the unusual purity of the quartz in the area. The minerals from Spruce Pine were already being used in electronics back in Thomas Edison’s era.

Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the ...