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CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
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CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20240331
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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240325

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Vale S.A.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000917851
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	METAL MINING [1000]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-15030
		FILM NUMBER:		24780606

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

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		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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<P STYLE="font: 16pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; color: #007E7A"><B></B></P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: right; width: 20%"><IMG SRC="vale202403256k_001.jpg" ALT=""><P STYLE="font: 26pt Vale Sans Extralight,sans-serif; margin: 0; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 16pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; color: #007E7A"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 16pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; color: #007E7A"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0; font: 16pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; color: #007E7A"><B>Brazilian innovation recognized:</B> <B>Vale is selected by
the US Government to begin award negotiations for a briquette plant</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; color: #555555"><I>&nbsp;</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; color: #555555"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif"><I>Vale&rsquo;s
innovative decarbonization technology to help spur emissions reductions</I></FONT><I>&nbsp;</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; color: #555555"><I>&nbsp;</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">Rio de Janeiro,&nbsp;March 25<SUP>th</SUP>,
2024&nbsp;&ndash; Vale S.A. (&ldquo;Vale&rdquo; or &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) informs that the US Government&rsquo;s Department of Energy
announced that Vale USA (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vale) has been selected to begin award negotiations for Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law and Inflation Reduction Act funding, as part of the Industrial Demonstrations Program. Vale&rsquo;s project envisages the development
of an innovative iron ore briquette industrial facility in the US, the first in the world applying the proprietary cold-agglomeration
process for briquettes customized for the direct reduction route.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">Vale&rsquo;s project was selected through a
mechanism focused on spurring novel and innovative technologies that can demonstrate commercial-scale solutions to deliver significant
emissions reductions in the hard-to-abate sectors.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">Announced by Vale in 2021, after almost 20
years of development in Vale&rsquo;s technology center in Minas Gerais, Brazil, the briquette is produced from the low-temperature agglomeration
of high-quality iron ore using a technological solution of binders which give the final product high mechanical strength. The first plant
in the world was inaugurated by Vale in 2023, in Vit&oacute;ria, Brazil.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">The selection by the US Department of Energy
represents a critical path for the validation of Vale&rsquo;s proprietary cold-agglomeration technology, and its potential to deliver
a transformative solution to decarbonize the steel sector, and highlights Vale&rsquo;s and Brazil&rsquo;s leadership in the development
of decarbonization solutions for the global steel industry.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 11pt Calibri, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Vale Sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #555555">Vale
will negotiate an award for up to US$ 282.9 million for the U.S. project and&nbsp;looks to develop additional, customized facilities in
Brazil and worldwide, to reach around 100 Mtpy of agglomerates production by 2030+, including iron ore briquettes and pellets.</FONT><FONT STYLE="color: #212121">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">The iron ore briquette contributes to achieving
Vale&rsquo;s commitment to reduce 15% of its scope 3 net emissions by 2035. The company also seeks to reduce its absolute scope 1 and
2 emissions by 33% by 2030 and achieve neutrality by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement ambition.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center; color: #555555">Gustavo Duarte Pimenta</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: center; color: #555555">Executive Vice President, Finance and Investor
Relations</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: #555555">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555"><B>For further information, please contact:</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555">Vale.RI@vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555">Thiago Lofiego: thiago.lofiego@vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555">Luciana Oliveti: luciana.oliveti@vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555">Mariana Rocha: mariana.rocha@vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555">Patricia Tinoco: patricia.tinoco@vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: right; color: #555555">Pedro Terra: pedro.terra@vale.com</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: gray">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: gray">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 7pt Vale Sans,sans-serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; color: gray">This press release may include statements that
present Vale&rsquo;s expectations about future events or results. All statements, when based upon expectations about the future, involve
various risks and uncertainties. Vale cannot guarantee that such statements will prove correct. These risks and uncertainties include
factors related to the following: (a) the countries where we operate, especially Brazil and Canada; (b) the global economy; (c) the capital
markets; (d) the mining and metals prices and their dependence on global industrial production, which is cyclical by nature; and (e) global
competition in the markets in which Vale operates. To obtain further information on factors that may lead to results different from those
forecast by Vale, please consult the reports Vale files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Brazilian Comiss&atilde;o
de Valores Mobili&aacute;rios (CVM) and in particular the factors discussed under &ldquo;Forward-Looking Statements&rdquo; and &ldquo;Risk
Factors&rdquo; in Vale&rsquo;s annual report on Form 20-F.</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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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Date: March 25, 2024</TD>
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