Category: Quartz

Capibara: The First Americans | Arkeo Ep3 | Documentary

In Serra da Capivara, a Franco-Brazilian team found traces of the very first Americans. Archaeologist Eric Boëda has discovered man-made tools fashioned out of quartz pebbles, and dated between 22,000 and 25,000 years BC. …


China’s Natural Sand Export Ban to Taiwan has Limited Impact on its Chip Industry: Experts

China has hit Taiwan with several economic sanctions following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high-profile visit to the island. Among them is a ban on natural sand export to Taiwan aimed at hurting some of its industries, including semiconductors. However, Chinese media recently disclosed that China does not produce the high-purity sand required for chipmaking…


South African ‘Diamond Rush’ Unearths Only Quartz Crystals, Officials Say

JOHANNESBURG—Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz stones with relatively low, if any, value. People from across South Africa travelled to KwaHlathi in the country’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province where…