Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Bournonite is a sulfosalt mineral species a sulfantimonite of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3. It was first mentioned by Philip Rashleigh in 1797 as an ore of antimony and was more completely described in 1804 by French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis Comte de Bournon (1751โ1825) after whom it was named.