"WE WERE SHOCKED," says Dave Otteson about the find he made with his family three years ago. They'd hit a mother lode of turquoise at his Candelaria Hills Big Nugget mine outside Mina, Nevada. An excavated cut in a wall of crumbling desert rock was loaded with masses of turquoise nuggets. When Dave pulled the material out and cleaned them up, they looked like chunks of blue cauliflower.
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机译：“我们震惊了，”戴夫·奥特森（Dave Otteson）关于三年前与家人的发现说。他们在内华达州米纳市郊的Candelaria Hills Big Nugget矿山撞了一条绿松石母矿。在一块破碎的沙漠岩石壁上挖出的切口上满是绿松石块。当戴夫（Dave）拿出材料并将其清理干净时，它们看上去就像是一块蓝色的花椰菜。
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