Webcast Alert: Vale Announces First Quarter 2012 Results Webcast

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vale

    What:      1st Quarter 2012 Results of Vale
                Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 11:00 a.m. ET @ 12:00 p.m.
    When:       Rio de Janeiro time
    Where:     http://www.mediatown.com.br/prnewswire/player/?id=863
                Live over the Internet --Simply log on to the web at
    How:        the address above.

Contact: Carolina Kochem from Vale, + 55 21 3814-4540, or e-mail, rio@vale.com

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.vale.com. To access the replay, click on Investor Relations Section.

Vale is the largest diversified mining company in the Americas and the second largest company in the global metals & mining industry, with an average market capitalization of approximately US$ 125.5 billion in 1Q12. Vale shares are traded on the NYSE (VALE and VALE.P), on the Euronext Paris (VALE3 and VALE5), on the BM&FBOVESPA (VALE3 and VALE5) and on the HKEx (6210 and 6230). The ADR depositary agent is JP Morgan Chase. Vale is the world's largest producer and exporter of iron ore and pellets, the world's second largest producer of nickel. Vale is also a sizable producer of manganese, ferroalloys, thermal and coking coal, bauxite, alumina, aluminum, copper, cobalt, platinum group metals, and fertilizer nutrients. Vale is the largest logistics service provider in Brazil, where it owns and operates a series of railroads and ports.

Invitation: http://www.vale.com/en-us/investidores/web-casts/pages/default.aspx

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