In November last year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 30 million mt, up 11.9 percent compared to November 2017 and decreasing by 6.5 percent compared to October, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the January-November period of last year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 5.9 percent year on year to 317.5 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in November last year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.64 million mt, increasing by 26.4 percent year on year and up by 17.8 percent month on month. In the first 11 months of last year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 16.26 million mt, rising by 40.9 percent as compared with the same period of 2017.