Andy Burnham with Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak in 2019.
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Your phones and computers rely on this remote mine in North Carolina. Helene just drowned it.
You wouldn’t expect to find the lynchpin of the global microchip industry tucked away in a Blue Ridge Mountains town, but it’s there. Scattered across the outskirts of Spruce Pine, a series of mines has been extracting some of the purest quartz on Earth for decades. The resource is so essential that almost every advanced […]
