Rușchița marble explained

Rușchița marble (Croatian: Ruščica; Serbian: Рушчица; Hungarian: Ruskica márvány; German: Ruschitza-Marmor) is a mainly reddish, pinkish or white calcitic marble found in Romania.^[1] The marble deposit is located in the north of Caraș-Severin County, about 10km (10miles) northwest of the village of Rusita near Rusca Montană, in the Poiana Rusca Mountains.^[2]

Rușchița marble mining was done in the shape of a turned-over bell between 1884^[3] and 1960. The quarry originally belonged to the royal Hungarian Ärar. He leased it to Johannes Bibel from Oravița in the 19th century.^[4] Nowadays the extraction is made in descending horizontal stopes.

External links

• Ruschita marble quarry. Website of Marmosim.

Notes and References

1. Cetean. Valentina. April 2013. Ruschita Romanian marble – 130 years of official exploitation and 130 m depth of architectural beauty around the word. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. en. 15. EGU2013–12869. 2013EGUGA..1512869C .
2. Friedrich Müller, Reinhard Kögler: Internationale Natursteinkartei – kompakt, sheet 81.4. Ebner Media Group, Ulm 1997 [2021]
3. Nicolae Şt. Mihăilescu & Ion Grigore: Resurse minerale pentru materiale de construcţii în România. Bucureşti 1981, p. 104.
4. Franz Schafarzik: Detaillierte Mitteilungen über die auf dem Gebiete des Ungarischen Reiches befindlichen Steinbrüche. Budapest 1909, p. 267.