Alexander von Volborth

Alexander von Volborth/Aleksandr Fedorovich von Volborth (born 1800, Mogilev - died 1876, Kiev), was a Russian Empire 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.[1]

Alexander von Volborth

References
  1. http://www.mindat.org/min-4200.html



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