Due to a quirk of geology, the purest quartz in all the world comes from the picturesque town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

Over a week after Helene made landfall in the United States, the cleanup efforts continue in towns like Spruce Pine in the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN)– A Raleigh woman is still waiting for the ability to make direct contact with her son in Spruce Pine ...

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

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

The full extent of the damage to infrastructure is still largely unknown, while hundreds of thousands of people in the ...

Flooding in the small town of Spruce Pine has shut down the mining of the world’s purest quartz, a critical component in ...

Crews in Western North Carolina made headway Tuesday in an effort to clear roads and provide electricity, water and cell ...

Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for ...

Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber ...