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The Spruce Pine Mining District is a swath of the valley of the North Toe River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina. The area is mined for its mica, kaolin, quartz and feldspar. [1] Spruce Pine district is one of the largest suppliers of high-purity quartz, which is used in the manufacture of silicon for integrated ...
Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the largest research park in the United States, [1] [2] [3] occupying 7,000 acres (2,833 ha) in North Carolina and hosting more than 300 companies and 65,000 workers. It is owned and managed by the Research Triangle Foundation, [ 4 ] a private non-profit organization.
The Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle, are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.Anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, the region is home to three major research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
Donald Trump campaigns in North Carolina AP/Nell Redmond With his presidency approaching, tech leaders are seeking Donald Trump's good graces. Mark Zuckerberg dined with him at Mar-a-Lago.
Xerox Parc in 1977, an important technology lab in California's Silicon Valley. This is a list some of technology centers throughout the world. Government planners and business networks often incorporate "silicon" or "valley" into place names to describe their own areas as a result of the success of Silicon Valley in California.
A growing system with winds up to 50 mph that formed off the coast of Florida on Thursday is now targeting North Carolina with a high chance to become a tropical storm before landfall. Meanwhile ...
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.
The flooding decimated much of North Carolina's inland west, an unexpected outcome in a state which is used to dealing with hurricanes along its Atlantic coast.