The copper sulfide mineral flotation collector, N‐n‐butyl‐N′‐ethoxycarbonyl‐thiourea (H2bectu), and the 1:1 hexameric copper(I) thioureate complex, [Cu(Hbectu)]6, have been characterized by single crystal X‐ray diffraction. H2bectu crystallizes in the triclinic space group $\rm P{\bar 1}$ with a = 5.2754(4), b = 9.0042(7), c = 12.6030(9) Å, α = 80.528(6), β = 90.173(6), γ = 76.472(7)°. An intramolecular N‐H···O hydrogen bond between the thioamide proton and carbonyl oxygen forms a planar six‐membered ring in the central core of the molecule with C=O, C=S and C‐N bond lengths in accord with those reported for other N‐alkyl/aryl‐N′‐acyl‐thiourea compounds. [Cu(Hbectu)]6 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group C2/c with a = 23.269(5), b = 13.243(4), c = 23.037(7) Å, β = 91.81(2)° as discrete hexameric clusters disposed about a crystallographic centre of symmetry with a Cu6S6 core consisting of two Cu3S3 chair‐shaped rings linked by coordination of the deprotonated amide nitrogen atom to a copper atom in the adjacent ring. The six ligands assemble as a paddlewheel structure with the ethoxy and n‐butyl substituents packing in an alternating head to tail arrangement. Temperature dependent solution 1H NMR spectroscopic studies show that the hexameric structure of the complex is maintained in solution.