Sand collectors

Trustworthy sand collectors with which I already traded :

Jan Boonstra'shomepage : dutch sand collector, living in Korea ; contact Carina Vos for trading with Jan.

Philippe Florimond (France - Vaucluse)

Sylvain Painchou (France - Vendée)

Bibliography : reference books

Specialized books about sand are very few :

Le sable, Secrets et beautés d'un monde minéral - Jacques Ayer, Marco Bonifazi et Jacques Lapaire

Natural history museum of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) - 2002 - 128p - ISBN : 2940041105

No more available at Natural history museum of Neuchâtel ; it's still possible to order this book at Museum of Lyon (price : 18,10€).

"A travel in space and time to discover the origin, the formation and the composition of sands of the world, and to share the fascination which they exert on the collectors."

Synopsis :

La géologie du sable

Le sable et le géologue - Le cycle du sable - Les propriétés du sable

La collection de sables

La récolte - L'identification des grains au microscope - La classification

Les sables du monde

La photographie du sable -Les plages marines - Les fleuves - Les déserts - Les glaciers - Les plages lacustres

Sand - Raymond Siever

Scientific American Library - W H Freeman & Co - New York - 1988 - 237p - ISBN : 071675021X

Some beautiful pictures of different kinds of sand, showing their different shapes.

A Handbook of Sand - Gordon Osborn

No more available

Bibliography : other books

Les minéraux en grain - Méthodes d'étude et détermination - Alexandre Parfenoff, Josette Tourenq, Charles Pomerol

Masson - 1997 - ISBN : 2225614792 EAN13 : 9782225614798