Vale S.A.

Corporate Finance:Natural Resources

Summary

Vale (formerly Companhia Vale do Rio Doce – CVRD) is the second largest diversified metals and mining company in the world including being the world’s largest producer of iron ore and pellets, and one of the largest producers of nickel. Vale also produces copper, manganese, ferroalloys, bauxite, alumina, aluminum, coal, cobalt, PGMs, among other raw materials important to the global industrial sector.