Tibet discovery to reduce China’s reliance on imports for high quality quartz

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(TibetanReview.net, Jun08’26) – China has discovered a new source of high-purity quartz in Tingkye (Chinese: Dinggyê) county of Shigatse City, southern Tibet autonomous region, potentially reducing its reliance on imports of the critical material for making solar panels and semiconductors, reported the scmp.com Jun 8, citing a paper published in the European Journal of Mineralogy in April.

High-purity quartz is a gold standard manufacturing material for numerous hi-tech items, including some whose global market is dominated by China.

However, China has relied on imports to obtain the important material, with most coming from the United States, because of a lack of domestic sources for the ra...

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