1. - Jokulsarlon, Iceland. Volcanic sand and white ice make Jokulsarlon one of the rarest and most beautiful beaches in the world.
Star Sand. Star sand is the celebrity of rare sands. Found on Japan's Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, it's formed from the shells of microscopic, single-cell ocean organisms called foraminifera.
And no matter what the color or placement on the Real Sea Glass Rarity Chart, sea glass is a vanishing treasure, making even the least rare colors limited.
Green sand is the rarest color of sand in the entire world. It's caused by a special type of volcanic eruption in which olivine crystals (which are green) are brought to the surface of the earth.
Even though cobalt blue glass has been made throughout the generations, the color is still rare, especially when compared with clear or brown glass. It is thought that only about one in 250 or so pieces of real sea glass is found in a cobalt blue color, and double that for cornflower blue sea glass.
And yet, as a perfect balance between white and black, and so rare that you might only find a true gray one in every 3,000 to 5,000 pieces, it is still a delight to find, whether it is your first gray or your hundredth.
Even if it is an more available color, the size and shape of your piece can also helps determine its value. That being said, gray and black sea glass are quite rare. These colors most often come from vintage and antique glass that's just not seen too much anymore.
Ironsand, also known as iron-sand or iron sand, is a type of sand with heavy concentrations of iron. It is typically dark grey or blackish in colour.
Pink beaches apparently get their color from foraminifera, which are microscopic red organisms that live in the coral reefs and get washed up on the beach. A pink sand beach in general is very rare, and there are only a handful of them worldwide. They're even rarer than black beaches.
Located in Queensland, Australia is this famous tourist destination. Rainbow Beach gets its name from its rainbow colored sand dunes that overlook a gorgeous white sand beach. While you are there make sure you visit Great Sandy National Park for some outdoor adventures.
Today, uranium glass is rarely made for general use, but it can still be found in laboratories for testing and in the form of ultra rare UV sea glass. Early in the 20th century, uranium and radon were seen as miracles of modern science and invention.
It turns out in the big scheme of beachcombing, finding sea marbles is actually very rare. Finding one of the holy grails as my first piece was a blessing and a curse. It set an impossibly high standard.
While many aqua bottles were made, due to its age, aqua sea glass is quite rare, and the vibrant, more intense bright aqua is ultra rare. No matter its intensity, aqua sea glass is truly glorious. Reflecting the colors of the beach, it never fails to delight when you come across a surf-tumbled shard on the shore.
So, where is the whitest beach? According to the National Committee on Soil and Terrain, you'll find the whitest sand here at Lucky Bay, Cape Le Grand, Western Australia. Tourism WA.
Most white sandy beaches are derived from granitic, or less commonly sandstone, geologies that weather to produce fine, frosted quartz sand grains. Interestingly, sands made from shell or coral fragments just aren't as white.
Hyams Beach, Australia
Reports that Hyams held the Guinness World Record for the whitest sand on earth turned out to be false but there's no question the beach at Jervis Bay in New South Wales is still very, very white.
One of the rarest forms of sand, star sand, is both a beautiful sight and a scientific marvel. Found on the Taketomi, Hatoma, and Iriomote islands of Japan, star sand is exactly what the name implies small, millimeter-sized pieces of sand in the shape of stars!
The world has an infinite number of beaches sprawled across various coastlines. However, black sand beaches are a little harder to find. There are around 20 black sand beaches in the world. Their rarity is a direct result of their region, some of which have a high volume of Magnetite on the surface.
Black sand beaches are located all over the world, from the sheer-sided caldera of Santorini in Greece to the geothermal hotspot of the Canary Islands, as well as mountainous Hawaii, lush Tahiti, Japan, and several islands in the Caribbean.
Purple beaches are a phenomenon caused by the presence of a large amounts of almandine-pyrope garnet. or other purple minerals like manganese or rose quartz that have accumulated in the local sediment.
Manufactured sand (M sand) is sand made from rock by artificial processes, usually for construction purposes in cement or concrete. It differs from river sand by being more angular, and has somewhat different properties.
rock, plastic, glass and sand have never been part of a living thing.
Even if no pirates ever drank from the bottle that created your sea glass shard, it's a rare find, a great addition to your beach glass collection, and a great piece of history. And, it's still fun to call it “pirate glass.”
Black glass is difficult to spot because the frosting from many years in the sea makes it look like a stone and takes a practiced eye to spot on the beach, which makes it quite rare to find in collections. There has in recent years been a fashion to call black glass, “Pirate Glass”.
His response was a confident, “Absolutely.” Streeter went on to say, “Colors that contain iron in them will be stronger and when they do break, they will break into larger chunks.” (White, gray and black all contain iron, the same colors that I noticed often break into larger pieces.)