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Inventories (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2023
Notes and other explanatory information [abstract] |
Schedule of inventories |
Schedule of inventories |  |  |  |
|  | June 30, 2023 |  | December 31, 2022
Finished products |  |  |  |
Iron Solutions |  | 2,638 |  | 2,126
Energy Transition Metals |  | 638 |  | 651
|  | 3,276 |  | 2,777
Work in progress |  | 901 |  | 800
Consumable inventory |  | 1,157 |  | 1,010
Allowance to net realizable value (i) |  | (141) |  | (105)
Total of inventories |  | 5,193 |  | 4,482
(i) | In the six-month period ended June 30, 2023, the effect of allowance to net realizable value was US$47 (2022: US$22).

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