Astute Metals NL (ASX:ASE) has kicked off an intense program of diamond drilling at the Georgina Basin IOCG Project in the Northern Territory, with the work focusing specifically on the Leichhardt East prospect, noted as a ‘multi-faceted IOCG (iron oxide copper-gold) prospect’. The company intends to drill a 500 metre hole at Leichhardt East in the next two weeks, identifying it as an important target due to its modelled highly dense rocks, closeness to a drilled location which picked up a multi-mineral intercept (with copper, bismuth, silver and uranium), and its setting between two regional …