Rușchița marble (; ; ; ) 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 northwest of the village of Rusita near Rusca Montană, in the Poiana Rusca Mountains.Friedrich Müller, Reinhard Kögler: Internationale Natursteinkartei – kompakt, sheet 81.4. Ebner Media Group, Ulm 1997
Rușchița marble mining was done in the shape of a turned-over bell between 1884Nicolae Şt. Mihăilescu & Ion Grigore: Resurse minerale pentru materiale de construcţii în România. Bucureşti 1981, p. 104. and 1960. The quarry originally belonged to the royal Hungarian Ärar. He leased it to Johannes Bibel from Oravița in the 19th century.Franz Schafarzik: Detaillierte Mitteilungen über die auf dem Gebiete des Ungarischen Reiches befindlichen Steinbrüche. Budapest 1909, p. 267. Nowadays the extraction is made in descending horizontal stopes.
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External links Ruschita marble quarry. Website of Marmosim.