All MEGS Calgary members are invited to the elective Annual General Meeting and a luncheon on January 10th, 2025. The AGM will see the election of a new Executive board and followed by the technical talk by J.P. Jutras, CEO of Jade Leader Corp.

Details of the AGM and luncheon are as follows:

If you would like to attend the luncheon, please RSVP by email at megcalgary@gmail.com or by selecting one of the options below.

**Please RSVP as soon as possible in order to accommodate everyone for lunch.

If you’d like to pay the Membership or Luncheon fee online, please click on the appropriate link below to be redirected to the secure Square website:

Luncheon Details:

Date: Friday, January 10th, 2025
Location: Kerby Centre – downtown Calgary (1133 – 7th Ave. SW)
Doors open at 11:30 am
Talk starts at 12:00 pm (NOTE TIME FOR THIS LUNCHEON)
Membership: $25
Luncheon for Members: $30
Luncheon Non-members: $35
Talk and Beverage (Coffee, Juice, Pop): $10
University, SAIT, NAIT students: FREE with student ID (with purchase of membership)

NOTE: There is complimentary parking at the Kerby Centre. Parking lots are located beside the building (east) or across the LRT (North). Register your vehicle at Reception.

The MEGS Calgary is please to inform its membership of the AGM and election of a new board on January 10th, 2025.

All members in good standing unable to participate in person at the AGM and election on January 10th, will be able to submit their vote by proxy by clicking a link (to be provided) to vote from January 07th to 10th, 2025:

To be eligible to vote at the AGM, and stand in for election, one must be a 2023-2024 MEGS member in good standing. Memberships are available for purchase up to the start of the meeting.

The formal portion of the AGM will include the following agenda items:

  • Vote on slate of directors and executive committee members;
  • Financial Statements (NOTE: the financials shall be presented at the AGM)

Listed Nominations:

The following positions of the board are put for election for the year 2025.

Board members & Directors

  • President
  • Vice President
  • Treasurer
  • Secretary

Executive Officers

  • Membership and Mailings Officer
  • Meetings and Social Events Officer
  • Program Officer
  • Corporate Communication and Business Development Officer

Board position requirements to stand in for election

  1. Be a member in good standing
  2. The board membership commitment is one (01) year
  3. Submit personal information including one page bio, valid contact information
  4. Indicate the volunteer position of interest

To be considered for any position, all information is to be submitted to the following address: megcalgary@gmail.com.

Thank you for your continued support and dedication to MEGS Calgary.

Presentation Abstract:

Jade Leader Corp – Building a gemstone discovery and production Company from the ground up.

Jade Leader Corp (TSXV:JADE) has now been focused exclusively on targeting nephrite Jade within the mineral exploration space, and is the only publicly listed Company doing so in the world at this time.

The Company has now built a portfolio of 6 US based exploration projects, on all of which nephrite Jade has been identified. Following the first years of the Company’s Journey which were successful in identifying projects with long term gem material production potential, the Company’s current main task is in gaining access to the gem market through designers, fabricators and brands.

The presentation will focus on the dynamics of the Jade market, updates on recent developments in known districts and the Company’s progress in getting recognition for its current and future potential Jade production in an ever-changing general gemstone market landscape.

Presenter Bio:

J.P. Jutras, CEO of Jade Leader Corp.

Mr. Jutras is a professional geologist with over 35 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry.

In the late 1980’s while working in northern British Colombia, Canada, Mr. Jutras had an opportunity to take home some Jade samples form a mine visit. This became the beginning of a parallel avocation to his mineral exploration career now also spanning over 35 years as a student and collector of Jades from all over the world, and growing into a gemstone carver, facetor and metalsmith. It was this parallel path which led Mr. Jutras to be invited to participate in and compete for the first time at the prestigious Chinese Zi Gang Bey Jade and gemstone carving competition in November 2016 (and subsequently in 2017 and 2019), where he received both a silver and then a bronze medal for his competition entries.

While in China, the scale of the changes in the Jade industry became obvious, and a one-month initial research journey to some of the major Jade carving centers and markets in China was undertaken.

This led to the realignment of his path from industrial commodities such as gold, copper, silver and others to a single focus on Jade in North America through Jade Leader Corp (TSXV:JADE). Since then, he has worked on Jade exploration, research and new discoveries leading amongst other thing to 2 published, peer reviewed feature articles in Gem-A’s Journal of Gemmology in 2023 and 2024. The first introduced a Washington nephrite jade exhibiting pleochroism as a phenomenal stone, the second introducing pure primary hydrothermal jades from Wyoming, a new formational model for jade with many implications in today’s world of the gem trade.