From wired.com

Quartz mine essential for manufacturing phones and PC shut down by Helene

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Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech supply chain potentially starved of an ingredient vital for making microchips.

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4h ago

From tomshardware.com

Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing

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For now, the impact is unclear.

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