As many as 30 local jobs may be eliminated when a Spruce Pine quartz production facility shutters its doors as part of "a ...

A Quartz Corp facility in Spruce Pine is closing indefinitely, raising concerns among some downtown business owners about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a ...

The Quartz Corp. is shutting down its quartz production facility in Mitchell County as part of a company restructuring, the ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hurricane Helene has exposed a little-known vulnerability in the semiconductor supply chain, after flooding at ...

Richard G. Montague demonstrated the use of a punch press at Spruce Pine Mica Company’s new facility in Spruce Pine for this 1972 Citizen-Times photo. The company had just set a safety record, which ...

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