Rușchița marble

For the village in Caraș-Severin County, Romania, see Rusca Montană.

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 10 km (6 mi) 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.

  • Rușchița marble Champagne
    Rușchița marble Champagne
  • Rușchița marble Rosé
    Rușchița marble Rosé
  • Rușchița marble White
    Rușchița marble White

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. 15: EGU2013–12869. Bibcode: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.


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