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Rușchița marble (Croatian: Ruščica; Serbian: Рушчица; Hungarian: Ruskica márvány; German: Ruschitza-Marmor) is a mainly reddish, pinkish or white calcitic marble found in Romania. The marble deposit is located in the north of Caraș-Severin County, about 10 km (6 mi) northwest of the village of Rusita near Rusca Montană, in the Poiana Rusca Mountains.
Rușchița marble mining was done in the shape of a turned-over bell between 1884 and 1960. The quarry originally belonged to the royal Hungarian Ärar. He leased it to Johannes Bibel from Oravița in the 19th century. Nowadays the extraction is made in descending horizontal stopes.
Gallery
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Rușchița marble Champagne
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Rușchița marble Rosé
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Rușchița marble White
References
- 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. 15: EGU2013–12869. Bibcode:2013EGUGA..1512869C.
- Friedrich Müller, Reinhard Kögler: Internationale Natursteinkartei – kompakt, sheet 81.4. Ebner Media Group, Ulm 1997
- Nicolae Şt. Mihăilescu & Ion Grigore: Resurse minerale pentru materiale de construcţii în România. Bucureşti 1981, p. 104.
- Franz Schafarzik: Detaillierte Mitteilungen über die auf dem Gebiete des Ungarischen Reiches befindlichen Steinbrüche. Budapest 1909, p. 267.
External links
- Ruschita marble quarry. Website of Marmosim.
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