Vale : 07/19/2017 Vale clarifies about suspension of public civil action filed by MPF
July 19, 2017 at 11:38 am EDT
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Rio de Janeiro, July 19, 2017 - We refer to the material fact disclosed on July 18, 2017 to clarify that the suspension of the lawsuits related to the Samarco accident, determined by the 12th Federal Civil and Agrarian Court of the State of Minas Gerais, is until October 30, 2017, with the purpose of enabling the negotiation of a final settlement, as per the Preliminary Agreement between Samarco Mineração S.A. ('Samarco'), its shareholders, Vale S.A. ('Vale') and BHP Billiton Brasil Ltda. ('BHPB') and the Public Prosecutors.
The suspension for an indefinite period of time established by the Court in relation to the lawsuit filed by the Public Prosecutors is only intended to evaluate specific procedural issues on such lawsuit and does not affect at all the deadline of October 30, 2017.
For further information, please contact:
+55-21-3485-3900
André Figueiredo: andre.figueiredo@vale.com
Carla Albano Miller: carla.albano@vale.com
Fernando Mascarenhas: fernando.mascarenhas@vale.com
Andrea Gutman: andrea.gutman@vale.com
Bruno Siqueira: bruno.siqueira@vale.com
Claudia Rodrigues: claudia.rodrigues@vale.com
Denise Caruncho: denise.caruncho@vale.com
Mariano Szachtman: mariano.szachtman@vale.com
Renata Capanema: renata.capanema@vale.com
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Vale S.A. is one of the world's leading metallurgy and mining groups. Revenues break down by family of products as follows:
- ferrous minerals and metals (80,2%): ferrous minerals (85.1% of revenues; 254 Mt sold in 2020), ferrous mineral granules (13.2%; 31.2 Mt), iron alloys and manganese (0.7%; 1.4 Mt), and other (1%);
- non-ferrous minerals and metals (17.9%): nickel, precious metals, and cobalt (69.7% of revenues; 211 Kt of nickel sold) and copper (30.3%; 247 Kt);
- coal (1.2%): metallurgical coal (2.9 Mt sold) and thermal coal (3 Mt);
- other (0.7%).
Revenues are distributed geographically as follows: Brazil (7.3%), the United States (2.6%), Americas (1.5%), China (57.8%), Japan (5.5%), Asia (8.2%), Europe (13.3%) and Middle East/Africa/Oceania (3.8%).
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