In September this year, Brazilian miner Vale’s iron ore export volume totaled 24.6 million mt, rising by 4.5 percent compared to August and by 9.2 percent compared to September 2022, according to Brazil’s National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first nine months of the current year, Vale’s iron ore exports rose by 1.7 percent year on year to 172.6 million mt.
Meanwhile, in September this year Vale’s iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 2.14 million mt, moving down by 43.3 percent year on year and up by 4.8 percent month on month. In the January-September period of this year, Vale’s iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 19.0 million mt, down by 1.1 percent as compared with the same period last year.