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Tums and similar antacids are almost entirely calcium carbonate. According to their website:
Mined and from shellfish sounds like chalk to me.
Sure enough, in their FAQ:
Let's compare toothpaste, which one uses a small amount of twice a day and consumes (if old enough) almost nothing to an antacid made for occasional use but consumed in hundreds to thousands of milligrams at a time. Seems like there should be far more consumer concern about lead in antacids.
I found a paper about determining limits of lead detection in CaCO3, but they spiked lead into antacid tablets. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of concern out there about all this lead in chalk.
For what it's worth, the toothpastes that only used calcium carbonate had quite low levels of lead. It seemed to be the ones that use bentonite clay that have ridiculously high levels of lead and that is the far more concerning ingredient which was not present in OP's photo