The October Meeting will be the 43rd Annual Combined Mineralogical Societies of Australasia Seminar to be held by Zoom virtual mode on the theme of ’43 SHADES OF SILVER’ over Saturday and Sunday the 2nd and 3rd of October. There will be no Friday evening meeting this month.

The Seminar will open on Saturday at 10.45am and present a series of talks by speakers through to 3.00pm. The Sunday program will be the same length but starting at 11.45am through to 4.00pm since Daylight Saving will have been brought in on Sunday morning for NSW but not for all other states. The times of the Seminar sessions have been established to accommodate the different time zones of delegates.

Each day program will comprise two sessions of one and a half hours. There may be late adjustments to the schedule of speakers, subjects and the order of the lectures to be given but it is intended that there should be ten speakers representing most of the Australian State Mineralogical Societies and New Zealand who will deliver lectures on a wide range of subjects. The last lecture of the Seminar will be given by Rod Martin who will describe the arrangements for the 44th Seminar to be held next year in New Zealand. After the last lecture there may also be an open discussion.

The Zoom link for the Seminar will be sent out to all member and other state societies by e-mail with a final program for the Seminar a few days before the commencement. Members should note for convenience that they are at liberty to leave the conference at any time throughout the proceedings if they wish and connect back in later such as over the lunch break. The link will remain active for the whole Seminar period and could be used repeatedly.