Eike still likes gold

摘要

While Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista has swelled his fortune on Brazilian offshore oil over the last five years, he still has an appetite for the commodity that helped propel him to fame and fortune many years ago. Batista, through his Rio de Janeiro-based company EBX, is launching a bid for Ventana Gold (ven-t) - one of the gold market's hottest stories over the last year thanks to its world-class La Bodega gold-silver discovery in the mountains of Colombia.