Alex Volborth has a PhD in geology-mineralogy from the University of Helsinki, Finland; post-doctoral research at Caltech, Pasadena. Now Professor Emeritus at Montana Tech, University of Montana. He has held professorships at several universities; worked as consultant in Russia, South Africa, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Described Apollo lunar dust samples at the NASA Lunar Science Institute. His mineral collections are stored at The Smithsonian; The Mineralogical Museum at Harvard University; the NY Museum of Natural History; and the VSEGEI in St Petersburg, Russia. He is Guggenheim Fellow, 1965-1966. His photography has been exhibited in 2006 at the Gallery P, Las Vegas, Nevada; the Museum of the Russian Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, and the Russian Academy of Science Museum of V.I. Vernadsky, Moscow, Russia; and in 2007 at The 344 Photo Gallery, and The Montana Stone Gallery in Kalispell. His photography is displayed permanently at the Kmillion Gallery in Searchlight Nevada KmillionGoldmine.com He now lives in Dayton, Montana.