Helene schaltet hochreine Quarzminen ab und bedroht die technischen Lieferketten. Spruce Pine, NC, enthält die größte bekannte Lagerstätte von hochreinem Quarz.

This article is all over the shop.

>HPQ drives a $500 billion microchip industry that is core to the $3 trillion global tech sector.

I don’t quite get how hard they’re hyping up quartz. We use it for… oscillators? and that’s kind if it. It’s a huge bummer that they’re shut down, but after everything that happened with supply chains in 2020 everyone is accounting for like 6-8mo lead instead of 2-3. I just don’t see this singular mine having an effect like they’re playing up in the article.