This article is about calamine in mineralogy. For calamine used in calamine lotion, see calamine, for other uses of the word, see calamine (disambiguation). Calamine is a historic name for an ore of zinc. The name calamine was derived from the Belgian town of Kelmis, whose French name is "La Calamine", which is home to a zinc mine. In the 18th and 19th century large ore mines could be found near the German village of Breinigerberg.
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