Nedvědice, Vysočina Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic

There are about 25 old quarries and outcrops of Nedvedice marbles in the vicinity of Nedvedice, and others in surroundings of Černovír, Ujčov, Vrtěžíř, Kozlov, Vír and Strachujov. Nedvědice marbles are calcite marbles with bodies of calc-silicate rocks.
All known and unambiguously identified minerals are listed here.


Some information on specific sublocalities:

1) Locality Obecní Quarry
This locality is situated NW from Nedvedice village. The easist way to access this site is to go from the village main crossing the direction to Pernstejn and Vezna and on the next crossing (on the right is small cross and some trees) you turn to the right and follow the old asphalt road. The asphalt ends at the abandoned Obecni quarry. The quarry is on the right side behind the fence but the gate is usually open. There is no problem to climb the fence if necessary, the quarry is abandoned and not guarded.
The quarry has been worked in skarn and marble. The skarn is made of diopsid-hedenbergite and grossular-andradite with sulphides, allanite-(Ce) and zircon. The marble is white, coarse-grained with some phlogopite, tremolite, titanite and other typical marble minerals.
The site is pretty depleted with no smaller blocks so it's extremely difficult to find any samples.

2) Blue marble occurrence
Locality is situated NW of Nedvedice village. The easiest way to access this site is to go from the village main crossing the direction to Pernstejn and Vezna and on the next crossing (on the right is small cross and some trees) you turn to the right and follow the old asphalt road. The asphalt ends at the abandoned Obecni quarry [see 1) above]. The quarry is on the right side behind the fence but the gate is usually open. It is possible to climb the fence if necessary, the quarry is abandoned and not guarded. On the right side is very steep and not very obvious footpath. Climb up and on the top turn to the left and follow the path going around Obecni quarry (better not to fall down). At the back of Obecni quarry folow the path going slightly to the right and not much uphill. After hundred meters there is a small quarry in slightly blue marble. This marble contains a lot of vesuvianite, grossular and wollastonite and some other minerals. The coarse-grained marbles have the best blue color.
There is still a lot of blue marble blocks with typical contact silicates.


Ref.:
Houzar, S., Novák, M., Doležalová, H., Hrazdil, V., Pfeiferová, A.: Přehled mineralogie, petrografie a geologie nedvědických mramorů, svratecké krystalinikum. Acta Musei Moraviae, Sci. geol., 2006, roč. 91, s. 3-77.