{"id":152598,"date":"2026-06-08T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152598"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:00:10","slug":"tibet-quartz-discovery-boosts-chinas-self-sufficiency-push-for-hi-tech-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152598","title":{"rendered":"Tibet quartz discovery boosts China\u2019s self-sufficiency push for hi-tech materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has discovered a new source of high-purity quartz in its western Tibet autonomous region, potentially reducing its reliance on imports of the critical material to make solar panels and semiconductors.<br \/>\nHigh-purity quartz is a gold standard manufacturing material for numerous hi-tech items, including some whose global market is dominated by China.<br \/>\nChina has relied on imports to obtain the important material, with most coming from the United States, because of a lack of domestic sources for&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3356271\/tibet-quartz-discovery-boosts-chinas-self-sufficiency-push-hi-tech-materials?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has discovered a new source of high-purity quartz in its western Tibet autonomous region, potentially reducing its reliance on imports of the critical&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}