In June this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.95 million mt, down 4.2 percent compared to June 2015 and falling by 10.1 percent compared to May, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first half of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 8.1 percent year on year to 148.17 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in June this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.03 million mt, increasing by 3.8 percent year on year and down by 2.6 percent month on month. In the first half of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 6.76 million mt, rising by 9.8 percent as compared with the same period last year.