Jose Carlos Martins

Corporate Boards & Appointments: Vale iron ore chief abandons ship amid price crisis

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Mozambique Resources Post

Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s largest iron ore miner, said Monday its ferrous business chief Jose Carlos Martins, has left the company “to pursue new challenges,” and has been immediately replaced by base-metals head Peter Poppinga.

Global Markets: Vale to analysts – “End fixation on China, iron-ore price”

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Mozambique Resources Post

Analysts following Brazil’s Vale should stop obsessing over iron-ore prices and Chinese demand to focus instead on the company’s other divisions and cost cuts, one of the miner’s top executives said on Thursday.