According to the statistics provided by
Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in November this year
Brazil's
iron ore exports amounted to 23.2 million metric tons, falling by 9.2 percent year on year and up 13.1 percent compared to October this year.
The share of the world's largest
iron ore exporter
Vale in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in November equalled 90.8 percent, amounting to 21 million metric tons, down 4.8 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, in the first 11 months of 2011 Brazilian
iron ore exports fell by one percent year on year, decreasing to 251.7 million metric tons.
Vale's share in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in the January-November period of this year reached 91.4 percent, amounting to 230 million metric tons, up 0.8 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2010.