Spruce Pine, North Carolina
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Spruce Pine is the largest town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,194 at the 2020 census.
Locust (Lower) Street in 2007
Railroad tracks and train station in Spruce Pine (2008)
Abandoned Bon Ami mine (2012)
Community park in Spruce Pine
Quartz
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Quartz is a hard mineral composed of silica. Its atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen atom being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an over
Spruce Pine, North Carolina
…United States. The population was 2,194 at the 2020 census. The Spruce Pine Mining District is one of the only places in the world where high-purity quartz can be found. Spruce Pine was founded in 1907, when the Clinchfield Railroad made its way up the North Toe River from Erwin, Tennessee. The town was…
Quartz crystal cluster from Brazil
Common, prismatic quartz
Sceptered quartz
Sceptered quartz (as aggregates: "Elestial quartz")