High-end products are in short supply and in high demand. The price of high-purity quartz sand is rising.

Driven by the construction of AI data centers and computing power networks, the entire fiber optic industry chain is in high demand, with the value of high-purity quartz sand skyrocketing, becoming a true "gold in the sand." Industry data shows that the mainstream price of high-purity quartz sand for fiber optics has risen to 48,000 to 55,000 yuan per ton, with the high-end products with purity levels above 6N being particularly scarce. Due to the need to improve domestic self-sufficiency, the industry's supply and demand imbalance continues to intensify. The recent price spike of high-purity quartz sand is driven by the explosive demand in the downstream fiber optic industry. "High-purity quartz sand is used in multiple steps in the preparation of optical rods, and is also required in the production of fiber optics," said the head of a company specializing in quartz product processing. As orders increase for optical rod factories, the demand for "peripheral products" including high-purity quartz sand naturally increases.