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Alexander von Volborth/Aleksandr Fedorovich von Volborth (1800-1876), was a Russian palaeontologist. Volborthite, a mineral containing copper and vanadium and first found in 1838 at the Sofronovskii Copper Mine near Perm in the Urals, was named after him.
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