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Nearly every silicon chip on Earth begins its life in a crucible of ultra-pure quartz, and almost all of that quartz comes from mines outside Spruce Pine, a North Carolina town of about 2,200 people, because almost no other deposit yet found is clean enough to m - Space Daily

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Nearly every silicon chip on Earth begins its life in a crucible of ultra-pure quartz, and almost all of that quartz comes from mines outside Spruce Pine, a North Carolina town of about 2,200 people, because almost no other deposit yet found is clean enough to m Space Daily

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Nearly every silicon chip on Earth begins its life in a crucible of ultra-pure quartz, and almost all of that quartz comes from mines outside Spruce Pine, a North Carolina town of about 2,200 people, because almost no other deposit yet found is clean enough to m - Space Daily

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