the problem with black beauty sandblasting media is that you really have no idea what they put in that batch. Some of it is fine slag from heavy metal smelters, and all kinds of nasty stuff.
Just wet a bucket of black beauty or a similar type black sandblasting media and let it set for a few weeks then smell it.
If you want sand that is too heavy to make a cloud of dust, use coarse pool filter sand. it also does not compact like fine play sand.
WHITE quartz play sand is nice but its very fine stuff.
If you want black, its worth the money to get clean black aquarium sand.... being cheap often gets mighty expensive.
I use a sandblaster to clean engine parts, and I can tell you, every bag has a different odor to it and that tells me, its produced from lots of different stuff.
You can buy real high grade black ceramic blasting media that is really nice stuff, but its more expensive than black sand sold for aquariums.
I wouldn't dump it in my fishtank.
