bournonite
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Bournonite, also axotomous antimony glance, wheel ore, berthonite, volchite or dystomic glance () is a sulfosalt mineral species, trithioantimoniate of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Bournonite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfosalt mineral
- Mineral.image
- 2522M-bournonite1.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Bournonite from Viboras mine, Machacamarcha, Bolivia, 95 mm x 74 mm, largest crystal size: 29 mm
- Mineral.formula
- PbCuSbS3
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Bnn
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.GA.50
- Mineral.dana
- 3.4.3.2
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Pyramidal (mm2) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pn21m
- Mineral.color
- Steel-gray to iron-black
- Mineral.habit
- Crystals short prismatic to tabular, typically striated; commonly as subparallel aggregates. Also massive, granular to compact
- Mineral.twinning
- On {110}, commonly forming cross or cogwheel aggregates
- Mineral.cleavage
- [010] Imperfect
- Mineral.fracture
- Subconchoidal to uneven
- Mineral.mohs
- 2.5 – 3.0
- Mineral.luster
- Brilliant to dull
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- Image
- 2522M-bournonite1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bournonite
- chemical formula
- CuPbSbS₃
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.GA.50
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.GA.50
- Mohs' hardness
- 3
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Bnn
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/D.04a
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Bournonite, also axotomous antimony glance, wheel ore, berthonite, volchite or dystomic glance () is a sulfosalt mineral species, trithioantimoniate of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3.
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