Helene shutters Spruce Pine, NC mine that is pivotal to the world’s semiconductor supply

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article293265924.html

7 Comments

  1. Next week China will surely announce a magical new source of this quartz! (it’s ground up gutter glass)

  2. serious_sarcasm on

    While this tragedy continues to unfold, with people still missing throughout the region while infrastructure is simply destroyed, it is about to ripple out to the entire world as one small devastated town dominates a key part of the supply chain for semiconductors and, essentially, the entire modern economy.

  3. Operations are temporarily halted. Shuttering something usually means shut down for good which is not the case here.