Vale S A : Dates for reporting of 1Q22 performance

Press Release

Dates for reporting of 1Q22 performance

Vale S.A. (B3: VALE3 and NYSE: VALE) invites you to its 1Q22 earnings release.

1Q22 Production and sales report

Date: April 19th, 2022 (Tuesday) Time: After markets closure

1Q22 Financial performance report

Date: April 27th, 2022 (Wednesday) Time: After markets closure

Conference calls/webcast - In English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese

Date: April 28th, 2022 (Thursday)

Time: 11h00/10h00/15h00 (Brasília/New York/London time)

The conference calls will be transmitted live through our website:www.vale.com/investors

Dial in to conference calls/webcasts:

[phone] / 3181-8565 (Brazil)

[phone] (U.K.)

[phone] (U.S. toll free)

[phone] (U.S.)

Access code: VALE

Connection of participants through the computer via HD Web Phone:

Click here to access the call in English

Click here to access the call translated into Portuguese

Click here to access the webcast in English

Click here to access the webcast translated into Portuguese

Ever since the Covid-19 outbreak began, our highest priority is the health and safety of our employees. Our IR team adopted work-from-home, and as we continue to face these new circumstances, we strongly recommend you prioritize e-mail and online engagement.

For further information, please contact:

[e-mail]

Ivan Fadel:[e-mail]

Andre Werner:[e-mail]

Mariana Rocha:[e-mail]

Samir Bassil:[e-mail]

This press release may include statements that present Vale'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 Comissão de Valores

Mobiliários (CVM) and in particular the factors discussed under "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in Vale's annual report on Form 20-F.