• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    It’s a quartz mine, your current phone won’t just die.

    Calm down.

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      1 month ago

      By some estimates, Spruce Pine accounted for 70 percent of the high-purity quartz needed to produce the pure silicon used to make most advanced chips

      I don’t think anyone was thinking a mine’s slowdown would kill their current phone lol