In June this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 26.05 million mt, down 2.4 percent compared to June 2014 and up by 5.4 percent compared to May, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first six months of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports rose by 7.6 percent year on year to 153.14 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in June this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 991,000 mt, decreasing by 19.5 percent year on year and down by 9.1 percent month on month. In the first six months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 6.16 million mt, falling by 16.6 percent as compared with the same period last year.