![The Mineral NATIVE ZINC Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery](/e69yszg/375.jpg)
The Mineral NATIVE ZINC Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
Secondly, an ore needs to be common enough and exploitable enough to be profitable enough to mine. In other words, economical! As already stated, native zinc is a rare mineral and in addition, it does not group itself in any siginificant concentrations. Actual ores of zinc include sphalerite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, franklinite, willemite ...