Source: International Council on Mining and Metals - ICMM
+80%
+96%
+98%
+270%
4.15
2.02
2.19
2.22
1.12
Vale
Peer 1
Peer 2
Peer 3
Peer 4
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¹ Absences, restrictions, and medical treatments resulting from events with a high potential for harm. ² Total Injuries, medical treatment injuries and occupational Illnesses, multiplied by one million hours and divided by the exposure hours.
Safety Journey
Substantial progress in dam safety and tailings management
Governance
2019
Strengthen 3-lineof defense model
Geotechnical Risk Committee.
100% of the population close to risk areas removed
Adoption of
International Best
Practices
New TDMS (Tailings and Dams Management System)
3 Geotechnical Monitoring
Centers
Engineer of Record
Improved technical
understanding of V 's ms
("As-is" proj ct)
Adoption of GISTM (Aug/20)
2023-2025
GISTM
(global industry standart
Lower Risk
tailings management)
World-class standards
Solutions
and processes
Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA) for dams and tailings facilities
Upstream dam elimination program
New way to operate alternatives
to tailings - Filtered Tailings
Co-products
Cultural Transformation Journey
Safety Journey
Backup dam for Forquilhas
315 m length
93m height
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Safety Journey
Progressing on dam safety
Upstream dam decharacterization program
Ongoing
Complete
+66%
Dams at emergency level¹
35
Level 3
Level 2
4
-46%
Level 1
+43%
13
10
730
7
-71%
19
2
4
10
24
13
5
5
2019-23
2024-26
2027+
Total
Investment of ~US$ 5.0 billion¹
Geotechnical Monitoring Center
(Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
2020²
Apr 2024
2025
No dams at level 3 by 2025
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¹ Dams include geotechnical facilities dedicated to mining processes. ² Considering the highest number of structures at emergency level, in 2020. ³ As of March 22, 2024.
Safety Journey
New way to operate: less tailings and reduced usage of dams
Filtration Plant, Cauê
4 filtration plants in operation
US$ 2.5 bn invested
Dry tailings used as co-products
Sand as raw material for civil construction
Agera:
Sand stockpile , Brucutu site
Created to develop our Sustainable Sand business
~900kt already used in civil construction and road paving
Circular mining approach
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Safety Journey
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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%).