High-Purity Quartz
The Smart Mineral
the World
Depends On
HPQ is as rare as regular quartz is common
High-Purity Quartz/Silica, commonly known as HPQ, is naturally characterized by extremely low concentrations of impurities, resulting in a material composed almost entirely of silicon and oxygen. High-Purity Quartz/Silica enters into the production of the following products :
Energy & Solar Technologies, Semiconductor & Electronics, Telecommunication & Optics, Industrial & Chemical Applications, Consumer & Everyday Products.
PALQUARTZ deposit situated in Canada, in the municipality of Baie-Johan-Beetz in the province of Quebec. About 68% of the world’s highest-grade of High Purity Quartz/Silica (HPQ sand) comes from two companies exploiting the same Spruce Pine (USA) deposit.
PALQUARTZ has the potential to become a significant alternative source to the Spruce Pine deposit in the High Purity Quartz/Silica (HPQ sand) industry. To date, surface samples have been purified to levels meeting the threshold specifications of the fused silica market. With subsurface sampling, the Company aims to produce ≥99.997% SiO₂ high-purity quartz suitable for semiconductor, solar PV, and advanced electronics applications.
‘’It is rare, unheard of almost, for a single site to control the global supply of a crucial material. Yet if you want to get high-purity quartz, the kind you need to make those crucibles without which you can’t make silicon wafers, it has to come from Spruce Pine’’
Material World, by Ed Conway
Baie-Johan-Beetz Deposit: a potentially game changing propriety
Building a Strategic Resource Company
Building a Strategic Resource Company
PALQUARTZ is a Canadian Company that has the exclusive mining rights over the High-Purity Quartz/Silica deposit situated in Baie Johan-Beetz (QC, Canada).
An opportunity
to become a leader of a growing market
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The fused silica represents the highest-value and fastest-growing market for HPQ sand, with projected conservative growth of ~6–8% CAGR through 2030, supported by structural demand from semiconductors, solar PV, and advanced electronics. This growth is further constrained by a limited number of qualifying HPQ deposits globally, reinforcing supply tightness.
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The global High Purity Quartz/Silica (HPQ sand) for the Fused Silica market is dominated by 3 players controlling 90% of sales. These companies are investing heavily to expand their production capacity in response to growing demand, as HPQ sand has become a bottleneck in the manufacturing of advanced high-tech applications.
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PALQUARTZ has the potential to become an alternative source to the Spruce Pine deposit. To date, surface samples have been purified to levels meeting the threshold specifications of the fused silica market. With subsurface sampling, the Company aims to produce ≥99.997% SiO₂ High-Purity Quartz/Silica.