OREANDA-NEWS. In a challenging year, Vale has achieved positive results in 2012, giving evidences that we are on a path of sustainable growth and value creation.

Our underlying earnings reached USD 11.2 billion and adjusted EBITDA was USD 19.1 billion. We distributed dividends to shareholders of USD 6.0 billion, the second largest ever made by Vale and the largest among big miners in 2012.

Watch the video on our results with Vale's executive director of Finance and Investors Relations, Luciano Siani.