OPAL ASSOCIATION MEETING 15 JANUARY 2021
AT 25 SURFERS AV MERMAID WATERS QLD
THE MEETING OPENED AT 1 PM QLD TIME.
PRESENT
Chris Gawthorpe, Wayne Sedawie ,Ross Sedawie ,Sam Patel ,Paul Sedawie
ON ZOOM
George Christianous, Ruth Benjamin-Thomas ,Robert Short, Sally Patel, Natassa Patel
APOLOGIES Ken Willis, Andrew Kemeny ,Viki Bokros, John mc donald
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS
Paul Sedawie read the accounts with a balance of $33,142
WALKABOUT OPALS
We had a complaint that Brendon Ball of Walkabout Opals qld was issuing opal certificates of authenticity with a retail price on his own letter head but adding the opal association logo to it. This was the second time this had happened as he added a retail price on opal association certificates. Note this business is not connected to Walkabout opals and jewelery.
Paul Sedawie moved to ban him from the opal association.
Seconded by Chris Gawthorpe,
He has been notified to discontinue using the opal association logo as he is no longer a member.
OPAL BRIGHTNESS
A discussion was held in regards to the use of words instead of numbers when describing the brightness of a stone which was felt to be too confusing.
SUBDUED
MODERATE
BRIGHT
VERY BRIGHT
VIVID
We are recommending to our members to use these descriptive words.
Paul Sedawie moved a motion to adopt the above brightness terms
Seconded Wayne Sedawie
OPAL CERTIFICATES
Natassa Patel has agreed to prepare a testing and qualification exam before members can issue opal association certificates of authenticity.
The meeting closed at 2 pm
COOBER PEDY MINING SYMPOSIUM
The opal mining symposium will be held in Coober Pedy on the 30 March to 1 April with a trade show on the 3 and 4 th April. The opal association is sponsoring an event on the first night of meet and greet.
ZOOM MEETING
The zoom meeting is turning out to be a efficient way to attend meetings. George Christianous came to us live on zoom from his mine and at our last meeting some members were driving and attended the meeting by zoom. I did forget to add that you have to down load the app for a zoom meeting!
We would like to see more members have input at our next meeting using zoom.
Kind Regards
Paul Sedawie
President of the Opal Association