EARTHY CALAMINE. 4,2 3 Constituent Paris. Bleiberg in Carinthte. Oxide of Zinc, - 71.4 Carbonic Acid, - 13.5 Water, - - 15.1 100.0 Smithson in Phil. Trans. P. I. for 1803. Geon-noslic Situation of the Species. It occurs in beds, nests, filling up or lining hollows, in transition limestone, and in flcetz limestone, and conglo merate rock ; also in veins. In these repositories it is generally associated with galena or lead-glance, and occa sionally with copper-pyrites, copper-green, malachite, yellow and brown blende, sparry ironstone, ochry-brown ironstone, brown-spar, calcareous-spar, and quartz. V Geographic Situation of the Species. t Europe.—It occurs in the Mendip Hills, at Shipham, n ear Cross, Somersetshire; at Allonhead in Durham ; at IIoly we li an d elsewhere in Flintshire; and in Derby- ‘hire. On the Continent, it is met with at Raibel and •Bleiberg in Carinthia; Aachen ; Namur; Chemnitz id Hungary; Medziana Gora in Poland; Beuthen and Tarnowitz in Silesia; and Iserlohn in the Dutchy of Berg. Mia—Altai in Siberia. Uses. Calamine, when purified and roasted, i» used for the fabrication of brass, which is a compound of zinc and copper;