According to the statistics provided by
Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in October this year
Brazil's
iron ore exports amounted to 20.5 million metric tons, falling 16.7 percent compared to September this year.
The share of the world's largest
iron ore exporter
Vale in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in October equalled 92.5 percent, amounting to 19 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in the first 10 months of 2011 Brazilian
iron ore exports fell slightly by 0.2 percent year on year to 228.5 million metric tons.
Vale's share in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in the January-October period of this year was 91.5 percent, amounting to 209 million metric tons.