In September this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 31.87 million mt, up 12.1 percent compared to September 2017 and decreasing by 0.2 percent compared to August, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the January-September period of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 5.2 percent year on year to 254.86 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in September this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.45 million mt, increasing by 9.8 percent year on year and down by 10.7 percent month on month. In the first nine months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 13.22 million mt, rising by 29.4 percent as compared with the same period last year.