[LonePalm]

IIRC - That one mine is the source for the silicon in ~90% of the world's microprocessors. It has to do with the exact chemical composition of the quartz.

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Axenolith]

I’ve got a chunk of actual silicon hiding around here somewhere. It’s from a busted cylinder for slicing chip wafers from. I never found a geologist or other scientist type that could figure out what it is when I handed it to them LOL (it’s silver, and like a weird metal that fractures like glass.