Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has most of the world's high-quality quartz, a mineral essential for the semiconductors used in ...

The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting ...

However, they remain closed as surrounding communities in a remote mountain region deal with pervasive power and water ...

The Sibelco mine in North Carolina is one of the most crucial sites to the global production of semiconductors.

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Today revered as the father of modern physics and the inventor of calculus, Newton was describing a recipe for the Philosophers’ Stone, a legendary substance that reputedly could turn base metals like ...

It includes easy-to-access stuff like wood (for doors, trapdoors, slabs, stairs and so on), glass, lanterns, quartz blocks ... together mossy stone bricks and cobblestone, spruce logs and leaf ...

The spacious 18' reception hall has extensive exposed stone, brick and timber work and a fine flagstone floor. Hardwood framed, double glazed windows enable a beautiful outlook across the tree lined ...

The base could be constructed using bricks made from lunar soil. Robots could be used to assemble the bricks into structures shaped in various forms, such as an egg-shaped “lunar pot vessel.” ...

China will send samples of bricks to its space station in the coming months to test their durability in extreme conditions and potential use in building moon bases. Samples of bricks made of ...

All in all, it was a positive few visits by the FIFA folks to Spruce Meadows, which hopes to secure host status of a participating country’s base camp ahead of the 2026 World Cup of Soccer.