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Accounts receivable (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Notes and other explanatory information [abstract] |
Schedule of accounts receivable |
Schedule of accounts receivable |  |  |
| Notes | December 31, 2023 | December 31, 2022
Receivables from contracts with customers |  |  |
Third parties |  |  |
Iron Ore Solutions |  | 3,406 | 3,132
Energy Transition Metals |  | 743 | 984
Other |  | 3 | 35
Related parties | 31 | 89 | 211
Accounts receivable |  | 4,241 | 4,362
Expected credit loss |  | (44) | (43)
Accounts receivable, net |  | 4,197 | 4,319
Schedule of sensitivity of the company's risk on final settlement |
Schedule of sensitivity of the company's risk on final settlement |  |  |  |
| December 31, 2023
| Thousand metric tons | Provisional price (US$/ton) | Variation | Effect on Revenue (US$ million)
Iron ore | 29,594 | 139 | +/- 10% | +/- 412
Copper | 95 | 8,026 | +/- 10% | +/- 76

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