In October this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 27.78 million mt, up 2.6 percent compared to October 2015 and rising by 0.9 percent compared to September, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first 10 months of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 8.3 percent year on year to 259.99 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in October this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.04 million mt, decreasing by 10.3 percent year on year and down by 32.5 percent month on month. In the January-October period of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 11.8 million mt, rising by 11.9 percent as compared with the same period last year.