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I will use a flat rate padded envelope to ship these in the US, & refund your shipping overcharge to you. You get a 1 quart ziplock bag which is 7 pounds of sand. This is a very fine, spherical sand. If you walk along the shores of Lake Superior, you may come across small patches of sand that are black. When we went to the beach when I was younger, we always avoided them, thinking they were just dirty patches from the marshes & bogs. I guess everybody does, because no one talks about them. Well, last summer as I was picking up driftwood in one of those patches, I sat down & actually looked at it. I thought it was pretty cool so I scooped up a bag. When I got home, & started playing with it, I was just amazed First, the sand I had was wet (and really super heavy so I put an incandescent light bulb over the tub of sand to dry it. I came back a few hours later to ribbons of different colored sand!! It was pushing the red & blonde sand to the top & the black was falling to the bottom. & the red & blond was further sorting into red & white ribbons. (I later found out the red was garnet sand.) If you look really close when it is doing this, it looks like microscopic popcorn popping. I wish I could load more than one video!! Then I got out one of my 365nm flashlights I use to hunt fluorescent sodalite rocks, & there was glowing sand in my black sand!! (see my Yooperlite jewelry sections) THEN I got out a magnet!! The black sand had magnetic sand in it also!! This stuff is amazing!! I probably spent a week of my life this summer collecting, drying & just playing in my tubs of sand. It was just so much fun!! Well, the hauling wet sand off the beach wasn't all that much fun. LOL This would be absolutely perfect for a zen rock garden. Just spraying it with water, mixing it up & watching it dry was mesmerizing. Much more fun than watching paint dry. Literally TONS of science projects you could do with it. Short version. You get a 1 quart ziplock bag which is 7 pounds of sand. I have bags that are 95-99% all black & others with some blonde sand mixed in that are probably 80-90% black sand. (if you want sand that will sort) This sand has magnetic iron ore in it(lodestone sand), red garnet sand, fluorescent sodalite that glows under 365nm blacklight. This sand is a much finer grain than normal sand, & it weighs much more per volume. Most of the black sand is basalt. Some of the black sand is not actually black, but the greens reds, & purples you see in the colorful rocks that are the shoreline of Lake Superior. Under a microscope it is stunning!! I am told by a gentleman that purchased it that it is spherical. The last picture is of 95% black sand next to regular Lake Superior Sand where it is all mixed together. I do accept returns with a 10% restocking fee. Please message me within 3 days of receiving your package & return within 14 days. All my packaging materials (excluding tape & mailing labels) are collected from local businesses, recycled & reused. 7#
