tl;dr the town has two large mines that supply a lot of high quality Quartz, used somewhere in the process of (computer)chip production There are other locatio

tl;dr the town has two large mines that supply a lot of high quality Quartz, used somewhere in the process of (computer)chip production There are other locations within the US, as well as Norway Brazil and Russia, that can supply similar quality Kind of an expected temporary supply chain disturbance by Helene, but I expect things to normalize within a few weeks to two months tops.