Gazprom was for decades Russia’s biggest money-spinner and the most striking symbol of the Kremlin’s influence abroad.

Larvotto Resources has received US$4 million (A$6.2m) as pre-payment from Wogan Resources’ sister and financing company Xcelsior Capital under an exclusive antimony off-take agreement with Wogan.

The Australian sharemarket had another poor day on Friday, and the bourse has declined 2.8 per cent over the week.

Whitebark Energy has made an off market bid for King Energy, which holds Australia’s biggest prospective onshore clean energy gas project in South Australia.

Latitude66’s diamond core drilling at its key KSB gold project in Finland has extended its K8 prospect, including a 3.1m intercept assaying 6.1g/t gold from 41.8m.