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Your Phones and Computers Rely on This Remote North Carolina Mine. Helene Just Walloped It.

Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You wouldn’t expect to find the linchpin 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…