In November this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.82 million mt, up 0.5 percent compared to November 2014 and falling by 8.3 percent compared to October, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first eleven months of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports decreased by 4.03 percent year on year to 264.76 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in November this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 983,000 mt, increasing by 11.1 percent year on year and down by 15.5 percent month on month. In the first eleven months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 11.53 million mt, falling by 15.34 percent as compared with the same period last year.