The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been ...

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

Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often ...

The devastation in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene could have serious implications for a niche — but extremely ...

Operations at a quartz mine in western North Carolina have been shut down for more than five days after Hurricane Helene ...

Pure quartz, or “rock crystal” from Brazil ... from which raw slabs were painstakingly cut, polished, and processed to make finished piezoelectric components. R. A. Sullivan and R.

From afar, alabaster sheets of quartz can look like bright cobwebs weaving through rock. Gold-bearing quartz veins are found in parts of the crust that have undergone a lot of stress and strain ...

Those mines are now closed indefinitely, after Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of water on Spruce Pine, devastating the area.

Every step of the way, from raw, freshly-mined quartz crystal to mil-spec engineered crystal units, these minerals are sorted, inspected, verified, cross-checked, and so on. Before any cutting ...

Cutting off contact with a narcissist is often ... for those trapped in a cycle of narcissistic abuse: the “gray rock” method. While it may not resolve the situation entirely, the gray rock ...