In July this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 29.26 million mt, up 1.04 percent compared to June and rising by 5.1 percent compared to July 2016, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the January-July period of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 5.8 percent year on year to 186.26 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in July this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.12 million mt, decreasing by 1.8 percent year on year and down by 3.9 percent month on month. In the first seven months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 7.68 million mt, falling by 2.8 percent as compared with the same period last year.