Africa-focussed minerals exploration company IronRidge Resources’ field programmes within its CĂ´te d’Ivoire exploration portfolio are continuing to gather momentum, IronRidge CEO Vincent Mascolo says. Detailed face mapping and sampling have been completed within 145 primary hard-rock artisanal mining pits over a 16 km strike for a total of 324 rock-chip samples inclusive of 144 m of channel sampling submitted for assay at the Zaranou gold licence.