Rușchița marble

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.