Sand a scarce commodity

Watched a nice documentary last night. And before anyone says the Sahara is full of it:

"The problem is that the sand [in the desert] is too fine. The sand is also a mixture of superfine sand, fine sand, medium-grained sand and coarse sand, and the coarse sand and medium sand are completely missing in the desert sand. This means that the sand in the Sahara is largely a fine sand and is not suitable for providing the necessary supporting grain for the concrete sand. That is why the desert sand is not suitable, not because it is too round, but because it is too fine."

Sand (building sand) in a nutshell:

• Sand is a scarce commodity
• There are hardly any pure sand stocks
• Sand shares are suitable for long-term investments

Sand is used almost everywhere, is difficult to recycle and is unfortunately only available in limited quantities. In some countries, illegal sand mining has therefore been taking place for some time. In Indonesia, for example, coasts, beaches and even entire islands are being illegally excavated.

The articles and the documentary are older and prices are currently very high.

Nevertheless, against the background of a very long investment period, perhaps a topic for one or the other here?

Peer Group

Trane Technologies PLC $TT (+2,23 %)

69.18 billion $

Johnson Controls Internat. PLC $JCI (+1,62 %)

44.43 billion $

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A.

36.82 billion €

CRH PLC $CRHP34F

54.36 billion €

Vulcan Materials Co. $VMC (+3,64 %)

35.72 billion $

Carrier Global Corp. $CARR (+2,55 %)

50.80 billion $

Builders Firstsource Inc. $BLDR (+3,29 %)

24.91 billion $

Holcim Ltd $HOLN (+2,09 %)

45.01 billion Fr

Heidelberg Materials $HEI (+3,8 %)

18.31 billion €

Where is sand used besides building?

Test tube (the glass only reacts with a few chemicals)

Pure quartz sand is also used in the manufacture of ceramics, in enameling, in glass fibres, in the chemical industry, in abrasives and cleaning agents, in foundries as a material for the sand moulding process, as a leaning agent, as a filler (e.g. in quartz sand gloves) and as blasting sand and brake sand.

And now please discuss diligently - it helps us more than clicking in the poll 😜

https://www.brokerdeal.de/sand-aktien/

https://aktiengram.de/sand-ein-knappes-gut/

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarzsand#:~:text=Verwendung%20findet%20reiner%20Quarzsand%20auch,Magerungsmittel%2C%20als%20F%C3%BCllstoff%20(z.