Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. mineral

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Scope note:

A white ore composed of hydrous zinc silicate. It is a minor ore of zinc that occurs in zinc mines worldwide with significant deposits in Siberia, Romania, Sardinia, Slovenia, Belgium, Germany, Poland, England, Mexico, and the United States. Formerly confused with smithsonite, and both were called calamine; see "calamine (mineral admixture)."