Webcast Alert: Vale Announces 1st Quarter 2009 Results Webcast

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 29  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vale (NYSE: RIO & RIOPR) (BOVESPA: VALE3 & VALE5) (EURONEXT PARIS: VALE3 & VALE5) announces the following Webcast:

  What:    Vale 1st Quarter 2009 Results

  When:    Thursday, May 7 2008 at 10:00 EDT/11:00 a.m. Rio de Janeiro time

  Where:   http://www.prnewswireweb.com.br/player/?id=401

  How:     Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address
           above.



Contact: Valeria Gomes from Vale, + 55 21 3814-4540, or e-mail, 

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$ 70.5 billion in 1Q09. Vale shares are traded on the NYSE (RIO and RIOPR), on the Euronext Paris (Vale3 and Vale5), on the BOVESPA (Vale3 and Vale5) and on Latibex (XVALP and XVALO). 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 and one of the leading producers of manganese and ferro-alloys. It also produces coal, copper, bauxite, kaolin, potash, alumina and aluminum. Vale is the largest logistics service provider in Brazil, where it owns and operates a series of railroads and ports. 

http://www.prnewswireweb.com.br/player/?id=401DATASOURCE: Vale



CONTACT: Valeria Gomes, Vale, +011-5521-3814-4540, 



Web site:  http://www.vale.com/ 

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