Ongoing fieldwork at the Mombaque prospect, located 1.6km to the east of the Maria Bonita porphyry gold discovery, has ...

Global semiconductor makers are monitoring supplies of high-purity quartz, a material critical to the industry, after Hurricane Helene halted production at two North Carolina mines that produce ...

These very consistent drill results characterize a multi-phase felsic quartz porphyry-hosted system of quartz veins and breccias carrying gold. Within the mineralized intervals, gold is relatively ...

The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been left battered by the storm’s heavy rains Olatunji Osho-Williams Staff ...

Hurricane Helene has halted North Carolina mining operations producing high-purity quartz used to make silicon wafers for semiconductor manufacturing. Operators Sibelco and Quartz Corp.

An aerial view of quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., as taken from a plane on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo: AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high ...

The small mining town hosts the world's only known source of pure quartz, a necessary component for manufacturing computer chips. Hurricane Helene unleashed catastrophic rain, wind, and flooding ...

Flooding in North Carolina has imperiled the operations of mines that produce the world’s purest quartz sand — an irreplaceable ingredient for manufacturing components at the heart of ...

Chip Firms Watching Quartz Supply After Hurricane Shut Mines · Bloomberg Jane Lanhee Lee, Yoolim Lee and Christina Kyriasoglou Wed, Oct 2, 2024, 8:13 PM 2 min read ...

The sequence has also been intruded by felsic porphyry dykes prior to mineralisation. Mineralisation is located along four sub-parallel trends at Paddy's Flat and can be comprised of sulphide ...

Sibelco, one of the companies mining high-purity quartz in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has resumed operations. In an update on Thursday, the company said that production and shipments of the ...