According to the statistics provided by
Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in December 2011
Brazil's
iron ore exports amounted to 35.4 million metric tons, rising by 23 percent year on year and up 52.3 percent compared to November.
The share of the world's largest
iron ore exporter
Vale in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in December equalled 90.9 percent, amounting to 32.2 million metric tons, up 20.9 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, in the whole of 2011 Brazilian
iron ore exports rose by 1.4 percent year on year to 287.06 million metric tons.
Vale's share in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in 2011 reached 91.3 percent, amounting to 262.2 million metric tons, up 2.9 percent compared to 2010.