In July this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 22.76 million mt, increasing by 2.1 percent year on year and decreasing by 5.18 percent compared to June, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first seven months of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 11.79 percent year on year to 153.65 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in July this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.3 million mt, increasing by 3.35 percent year on year and by 5.45 percent month on month. In the first seven months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 8.69 million mt, increasing by 0.4 percent as compared with the same period of last year.