This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You wouldn’t expect to find the linchpin of the global microchip industry tucked away in a Blue Ridge Mountains town, but it’s there. Scattered across the outskirts of Spruce Pine, a series of mines has been extracting some of the purest quartz on Earth for decades.

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  • Your phones and computers rely on this remote mine in North Carolina. Helene just drowned it.
    Those mines are now closed indefinitely, after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of water ... the silicon that comes out of the ground in North Carolina then becomes part of a silicon chip ...
    10/2/2024 - 6:01 am | View Link
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