Webcast Alert: Vale Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Results Webcast

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vale (NYSE: VALE & VALE.P) (BM&FBOVESPA: VALE3 & VALE5) (EURONEXT PARIS: VALE3 & VALE5) (HKEx: 6210 & 6230) announce the following Webcast:

Contact: Carolina Kochem from Vale, + 55 21 3814-4540, or e-mail, [email protected]

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$ 143.7 billion in 3Q11. 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

SOURCE Vale