Rușchița marble
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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.[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.
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Rușchița marble Champagne -
Rușchița marble Rosé -
Rușchița marble White
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Friedrich Müller, Reinhard Kögler: Internationale Natursteinkartei – kompakt, sheet 81.4. Ebner Media Group, Ulm 1997 [2021]
- ^ 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[edit]
- Ruschita marble quarry. Website of Marmosim.
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