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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001292814-23-003763
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20230930
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230901
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230831

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Vale S.A.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000917851
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	METAL MINING [1000]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-15030
		FILM NUMBER:		231230383

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		PRAIA DE BOTAFOGO, 186
		CITY:			RIO DE JANEIRO
		STATE:			D5
		ZIP:			22250-145
		BUSINESS PHONE:		55 21 3485-3900

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		PRAIA DE BOTAFOGO, 186
		CITY:			RIO DE JANEIRO
		STATE:			D5
		ZIP:			22250-145

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Companhia Vale do Rio Doce
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20051108

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	VALLEY OF THE RIO DOCE CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20020129

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	VALLEY OF THE DOCE RIVER CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950602
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<P STYLE="font: bold 18pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Vale S.A.</P>

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Botafogo<BR>
22250-145 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil</P>

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Form 20-F <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&#120;</FONT> Form 40-F <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&#168;</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt">&nbsp;<B>&nbsp;</B>&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">VALE S.A.</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">A Publicly-Held Company</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">CNPJ (Corporate Taxpayer ID) 33.592.510/0001-54</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Praia de Botafogo, no. 186</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Rio de Janeiro, RJ &ndash; Postal Code: 22250-145</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">www.vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B><U>MANAGEMENT&rsquo;S PROPOSAL</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B><U>EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS GENERAL MEETING OF SEPTEMBER
22, 2023</U></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Dear Sirs,</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/115% Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 12pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">The Management of Vale S.A. (&quot;Vale&quot;
or &quot;Company&quot;) hereby provides </FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt">information on the only matter to be deliberated at the
Extraordinary Shareholders General Meeting (&ldquo;Meeting&rdquo;), to be held on September 22, 2023, at 10:00 am, exclusively digitally
via the Zoom platform, for the separate election, by the shareholder holding of all the preferred shares of special class (&quot;Golden
Shares&quot;) issued by Vale, of 1 (one) member of the Fiscal Council, to complete the term of office until the Shareholders General Meeting
to be held in 2024.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 18pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 38.25pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt">1.</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt">Election of 01 (one) member of the
Fiscal Council</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Art. 161, &sect;4, &ldquo;a&rdquo; of Law n&ordm; 6,404/76,
and the Vale Bylaws, in Art. 5, &sect;4, provide that the holder of the Golden Shares has the right to elect and dismiss one member of
the Fiscal Council and the respective alternate, in a separate voting process.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Thus:</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt"><B>(i)</B></FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt">the shareholder holding the Golden
Shares elected, in a separate vote, Mr. <B>Gabriel Muricca Gal&iacute;polo</B> as an effective member of the Fiscal Council at the Ordinary
and Extraordinary Shareholders General Meeting held, cumulatively, on 04/28/2023;</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt"><B>(ii)</B></FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt">on 07/25/2023, the Company received
a letter of resignation from Mr. Gal&iacute;polo as an effective member of the Fiscal Council;</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt"><B>(iii)</B></FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt">by means of Official Letter SEI No.
39405/2023/MF, dated 08/17/2023, the sole holder of the Golden Shares requested measures to call an Extraordinary Shareholders General
Meeting for the election, in a separate vote, of a new effective member of the Fiscal Council; and</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt"><B>(iv)</B></FONT></TD><TD><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt">the details of the nominee are provided in Annex I of this proposal.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">As already mentioned, <B>the only item on the Agenda is intended
exclusively for voting by the holder of the Golden Shares</B>. Although common shares do not give the right to vote on the only item on
the Agenda, these shareholders may participate in the Meeting and must observe the instructions described in the Meeting&rsquo;s Proxy
Statement, available at www.vale.com/investors.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Any doubts or clarifications on the subject on the Agenda
of the Meeting may be resolved or obtained, as the case may be, by contacting the Investor Relations area, by email to assembleias@vale.com.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Rio de Janeiro, August 31<SUP>st</SUP>, 2023.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">The Management</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><U>Annex I</U> <FONT STYLE="font-weight: normal">-</FONT>
Information from items 7.3 to 7.6 of the Reference Form about the candidate for member of Vale's Fiscal Council</P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="5" STYLE="border: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>FISCAL COUNCIL</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 30%; border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; border-left: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Name</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 11%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt; border-right: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Date of birth</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 18%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt; border-right: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Management Body</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 13%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt; border-right: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Election date</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 28%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt; border-right: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Term of office</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; border-left: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>CPF (Individual Taxpayer ID)</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Profession</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Elective position held</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Investiture Date</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-right: 3.5pt; padding-left: 3.5pt; font-family: Microstile; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Elected by the controller</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="5" STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; border-left: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Other positions and roles held at the issuer</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; border-left: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Dario Carnevalli Durigan </B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">09/05/1984</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">He belongs only to the Fiscal Council</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">09/22/2023</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">Until the execution of the 2024 Shareholders General Meeting</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; border-left: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">330.672.408-47</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">Lawyer </FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">44 &ndash; Fiscal council (Effective) Elected by the holders of preferred shares</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">Until 10/22/ 2023</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt">No</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="5" STYLE="border-right: Black 1pt solid; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; border-left: Black 1pt solid; padding: 5pt 3.5pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt"><B>Professional experience: </B>Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance (since June/2023). <B>Main experiences in the last 5 years</B>: (i) Member of the Board of Directors of Banco do Brasil S.A. (since August/2023); (ii) Director of Public Policies at Whatsapp (2020 to 2023); (iii) Legal Adviser to the Federal Government in S&atilde;o Paulo - Attorney General's Office (2017 to 2019). Education: Degree in Law from the Universidade de S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; USP, in 2007; Master's Degree from the Faculty of Law of the Universidade de Bras&iacute;lia (UnB), in 2018.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><B>Declarations:&#9;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><I>Declaration of non-conviction: </I>The candidate has declared,
for all legal intents and purposes, that in the last 5 years he has not been the subject of: (i) any criminal conviction, (ii) any conviction
in an administrative proceeding by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (&ldquo;CVM&rdquo;), the Central Bank of Brazil (&ldquo;BCB&rdquo;)
or the Superintendency of Private Insurance (&ldquo;SUSEP&rdquo;), or (iii) any final and unappealable conviction, in the judicial sphere
or subject to a final administrative decision, which has suspended or disqualified him from practicing any professional or commercial
activity.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><I>&nbsp;</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><I>Marital relationship, stable union or kinship up to the
second degree. </I>The candidate has declared, for all legal purposes, that there is no marital relationship, stable union or kinship
up to the second degree between himself and (i) the other administrators of Vale; (ii) administrators of Vale's direct or indirect subsidiaries;
(iii) Vale's direct or indirect controllers; and (iv) administrators of Vale's direct and indirect controlling companies.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10.5pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><I>Relationships of Subordination, Service Provision or Control
Relationships. </I>The candidate has declared, for all legal intents and purposes, that there has been no relationship of subordination,
service provision or control, maintained in the last three fiscal years, between himself and (i) any company controlled, directly or indirectly,
by Vale, with the exception of those in which Vale holds, directly or indirectly, the entire share capital; (ii) the direct or indirect
controllers of Vale; or (iii) suppliers, customers, debtors or relevant creditors of Vale, its subsidiaries or its controlling or controlled
companies of any of these persons.</P>

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has declared, for all legal intents and purposes, that he is a politically exposed person, due to his position as Executive Secretary
of the Ministry of Finance.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.</P>

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    (Registrant) &nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Date: August 31, 2023</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding-left: 0in">Head of Investor Relations</TD></TR>
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