Abstract
John Michael Moore was a B.Sc. and Honours graduate in Geology at the University of Cape Town, and Cape Town born and bred, and a baby-boomer sensu strictu , being born in September 1946. By 1972 John was employed as an exploration geologist, developing and fulfilling his lifelong love for exploration in its true sense of discovery and revelling in the intellectual and physical rigours of the discipline. He worked on a variety of commodities both in South Africa and in the U.S. during his formative years, but was ultimately drawn back into academia first to undertake his Ph.D. (again at the University of Cape Town) and ultimately to the opportunity to indulge both his love of exploration and the urge to share and disseminate this enthusiasm through teaching, through the Exploration Geology M.Sc. programme hosted at Rhodes University from 1990 until his premature death in 2012. The genesis and alteration characteristics of precious and base metal deposits in the Northern Cape and Namibia always had a special place in John’s heart (and head), although his research included diverse elements including the stratigraphy, geochemistry and ore genesis …
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