[Red Badger]

This is also the source of the sugar white sands on our beaches, from millions of years of erosion of the Appalachians.......................

[Red Badger]

Ping!.................

[spincaster]

Maybe that’s a good thing. AI is not our friend.

[crusty old prospector]

Quartz is the most common mineral on the planet. I am sure you can find an equivalent source elsewhere.

[Eccl 10:2]

I believe this is also where Augusta National gets “sand” for the bunkers there. The ultra white color looks better on TV.

[Tell It Right]

...to keep up with AI-fueled chip demand

IMHO the AI thing is overhyped. I'm not saying it has no use or is going away. I'm saying the investing in it is overvalued and will soon come back to earth to AI's intrinsic value. Then the demand for quartz will go back to normal. At least, that's my humble opinion.

[OHPatriot]

How long before some Chinese company buys it???

10% to the Big Guy type deal??

[AppyPappy]

Home of the former Beams Chinese Restaurant.

[RoosterRedux]

There are other prominent regions where high-purity quartz deposits have been discovered. Among them are Drag, Norway and certain parts of China.

[glorgau]

I think the whole facility should be sold to the Chinese as long as 10% goes to the big guy.

[Noumenon]

Harumph Harumph! We’ll just have to put a stop to that!

[gitmo]

I used to live right next to one of those mines. Their quartz was used to make the top telescopes lenses.

[chopperk]

They will probably be sold to the CCP.

[Redleg Duke]

Biden will sell them to China before January 2025.

[bgill]

Have Gates or China bought up the land around it?

[PGR88]

Let me guess - woke leftists want to shut them down....

[Reeses]

Pure quartz is silicon dioxide, carbon dioxide's heavier twin. Carbon is right above silicon in the periodic table and has similar chemistry. Carbon is the atom of life, silicon the atom of artificial life. Burning hydrocarbons could be replaced by burning hydrosilicons instead, the output being beach: white sand and warm water, rather than plant food.

Some plants, such as rice, incorporate SO2 sand in their build out, in addition to using CO2. It is believed the sand is a rice survival mechanism, to grind out the teeth of animals that eat it.

Both CO2 and SO2 are star players in the cycle of life.

[Libloather]

Pinus glabra, the spruce pine, is a tree found on the coastal plains of the southern United States, from southern South Carolina south to northern Florida and west to southern Louisiana.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_glabra

[minnesota_bound]

In the past, quartz were just pretty rocks and now used for semiconductor chips and in the near future it will be discovered they are useful in space travel and the name will be changed to dilithium crystals.....