SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz in a western North Carolina community is up and running again. Spruce Pine is a town of 2,200 residents.

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 ...

In the week ending October 18, 2024, the price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$402 mfbm. This is up +$14, or +4%, from the previous week when it was ...