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Folklore from this mountain range features a “Mistress of the Copper Mountain” with green eyes and a malachite gown. It’s not the Andes, but during a state-sponsored journey in his 60s, Alexander von Humboldt correctly predicted that diamonds were located in this mountain (10[1])range. A “radioactive trace” in this mountain range stems (10[1])from (10[1])a disaster at the Mayak plutonium processing facility. (10[2])This mountain range is home to (-5[1])a steel-producing town that was planned to resemble (10[1])Gary, (10[1])Indiana. (-5[1])Population centers in this mountain range include a city dubbed its country’s “third capital,” (10[1])Yekaterinburg. (10[3])The archipelago Novaya Zemlya is an extension of this mountain range to the north. For 10 points, the conventional border between Europe and (-5[1])Asia is formed by what Russian (10[1])mountain (10[1])range? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Ural Mountains [or Urals or Uralskie Gory]
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