United States
Securities and Exchange Commission

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FORM 6-K

Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the month of

November 2009

Vale S.A.

Avenida Graça Aranha, No. 26
20030-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
(Address of principal executive office)

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Vale signs export facility agreement

Rio de Janeiro, November 30, 2009 — Vale S.A. (Vale) informs that it has signed a US$300 million export facility agreement, through its subsidiary PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk (PTI), with Japanese financial institutions using credit insurance provided by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI).

The proceeds will be used to finance the construction of the Karebbe hydroelectric power plant on the Larona river, island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Karebbe will be the third hydropower plant to supply our Indonesian operations, the largest lateritic nickel operations in the world. Total investment is estimated at US$410 million and the plant is scheduled to come on stream in the first half of 2011.

The project is part of the efforts to produce permanent downward shifts in our cost structure, as it will replace high-cost thermal power generation in an energy intensive operation.

Karebbe is one of the projects contemplated by the agreement signed with NEXI in 2008, to provide loan insurance of US$2 billion for the financing of mining, logistics and power generation projects to be developed under Vale’s investment program.

For further information, please contact:
+55-21-3814-4540
Roberto Castello Branco: roberto.castello.branco@vale.com
Viktor Moszkowicz: viktor.moszkowicz@vale.com
Patricia Calazans: patricia.calazans@vale.com
Samantha Pons: samantha.pons@vale.com
Theo Penedo: theo.penedo@vale.com

This press release may include declarations about Vale’s expectations regarding future events or results. All declarations based upon future expectations, rather than historical facts, are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Vale cannot guarantee that such declarations will prove to be correct. These risks and uncertainties include factors related to the following: (a) the countries where Vale operates, mainly Brazil and Canada; (b) the global economy; (c) capital markets; (d) the mining and metals businesses and their dependence upon global industrial production, which is cyclical by nature; and (e) the high degree of global competition in the markets in which Vale operates. To obtain further information on factors that may give rise to results different from those forecast by Vale, please consult the reports filed with the Brazilian Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including Vale’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and its reports on Form 6-K.

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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.