Tarmac Building sand, Large Bag

It's sand, what else can you say, but there's a 50 character minimum so here goes.
The grain structure was consistent and appropriate. The moisture level was high but I was making mortar and kiln dried sand wasn't needed. It's relatively expensive compared to the bulk product but when you're making small batches it's convenient and other than an illegal trip to the beach with a bucket and spade, there aren't many other options.

Bought a couple of bags for patio repointing (dry mix). Damp, claggy consistency with loads of lumps about the size & shape of baked beans - seems like it had clay content in it. Also a fair amount of small stones. I ended up running through a fine garden sieve.

It is wet but I'd expect to pay more than double for dry sand plus its going to get wet where its going.

This is definately NOT building sand, it is coarser than sharp sand. When mixed, can best be described as granola. There are more lumps of quartz (up to 8mm) than grains of sand so much so that I thought I had picked up bags of rock salt by mistake.

The sand was absolutely soaking wet when I collected it so not a great start. Also the sand was so coarse I found it difficult to get a smooth finish with my pointing tool, even when adding more water. It would probably be okay for laying and pointing paving slabs but in my DIY opinion, not for brickwork.