In November this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.7 million mt, increasing by 1.78 percent year on year and down by 3.66 percent compared to October, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first 11 months of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 7.6 percent year on year to 252.37 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in November this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.95 million mt, increasing by 13.6 percent year on year and decreasing by 15.2 percent month on month. In the first 11 months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 21.24 million mt, increasing by 10 percent as compared with the same period of last year.