Vale SA/  US91912E1055  /

Vale is one of the three largest metals and mining company and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world. Vale is the world’s largest producer of iron ore and iron ore pellets, key raw materials for steelmaking, and the world’s largest producer of nickel, which is used to produce stainless steel and metal alloys employed in the production of aircraft, autos, mining and energy equipment mobile phones, batteries, special batteries for hybrid electric vehicles and several other products. The company also produces manganese ore, ferroalloys, metallurgical and thermal coal, copper, platinum group metals, gold, silver, cobalt, potash, phosphates and other fertilizer nutrients, important raw materials for the global industrial and food production industries.