SPRUCE PINE - Mitchell County officials are still battling to restore potable water to most of the sparsely populated county ...

Now cooled and worn, the rocks around Spruce Pine has the look of a dirty snowball thanks to a combination of feldspar, mica, and quartz. When ground up, it just looks like white sand, but when ...

Flooding in North Carolina has imperiled the operations of mines that produce the world’s purest quartz sand — an irreplaceable ... The town of Spruce Pine, where these unique mines are ...

Studio glass practitioners pride themselves on rejecting industry, but the cyclone laid bare the movement’s entwinement with ...

Mitchell County, NC — A second incident of excessive force involving a Spruce Pine Officer also won't result in criminal ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...

The amount of quartz required to support solar crucible production is fairly small. Chase says that Spruce Pine produced ...

John Walker, its former chief executive, told Sky that it would take “many months before Spruce Pine gets back to normal”. Quartz sand is used to make the crucibles – metal containers – in ...

SPRUCE PINE - Mitchell County officials are still battling to restore potable water to most of the sparsely populated county as one of its primary wastewater treatment facilities remains inoperable.