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Historically, smithsonite was identified with hemimorphite before it was realised that they were two distinct minerals. en.wikipedia.org

He studied subjects ranging from coffee making to the use of calamine in making brass, which would eventually be called smithsonite. en.wikipedia.org

Other minerals from which zinc is extracted include smithsonite (zinc carbonate), hemimorphite (zinc silicate), wurtzite (another zinc sulfide), and sometimes hydrozincite (basic zinc carbonate). en.wikipedia.org

The other less common creedite association is creedite limonite kaolinite hemimorphite smithsonite hydrozincite aurichalcite. en.wikipedia.org

It occurs in association with hemimorphite, smithsonite, chrysocolla, coronadite and various iron oxides. en.wikipedia.org

Metallurgists wishing to produce brass thus used calamine (actually a mixture of the virtually indistinguishable zinc ores smithsonite and hemimorphite) as the zinc component of brass. en.wikipedia.org

It occurs associated with smithsonite, hemimorphite, willemite, cerussite, aurichalcite, calcite and limonite. en.wikipedia.org

It is also found in marble and may be the result of a metamorphism of earlier hemimorphite or smithsonite. en.wikipedia.org

It occurs with smithsonite, gebhardite, willemite, cerussite and sauconite. en.wikipedia.org

Smithsonite occurs as a secondary mineral in the weathering or oxidation zone of zinc-bearing ore deposits. en.wikipedia.org

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