In the guide below, we’ll sort through materials, patterns, and colors as they pertain to five of the most popular countertop materials: granite, laminate, marble, quartz, and solid surface.
Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...
HPQ is the raw material for the high-grade quartz products that sit at the heart of high-end consumer tech products. Its chemical and physical properties—including high temperature and corrosion ...
An aerial view of quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., as taken from a plane on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo: AP One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making ...
An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane ...
Her work has appeared in publications such as Quartz, the Village Voice, Gothamist, and Slate. Leeron is a New York-based writer with experience covering technology and politics. Her work has ...