# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000917851
**File Stem:** 0001292814-25-004307
**Filing Date:** 2025-12
**Character Count:** 5511
**Document Hash:** 2bfedfc95a161abc992d8c3160815938
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001292814-25-004307.hdr.sgml**: 20251217

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001292814-25-004307

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8 POS

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251217

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251217

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20251217

**FILER**: 

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

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-276867
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251578432

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** PRAIA DE BOTAFOGO, 186
- **CITY:** RIO DE JANEIRO
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** D5
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 55 21 3485-3900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** PRAIA DE BOTAFOGO, 186
- **CITY:** RIO DE JANEIRO
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** D5

**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

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 17, 2025**

**Registration No. 333-276867**

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

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**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:**

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-276867**

**UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933**

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**VALE S.A.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **The Federative Republic of Brazil** | **N/A** |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |

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**Praia de Botafogo 186**

**Offices 901, 1101, 1601 (part), 1701 and 1801 - Botafogo**

**Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil**

**Telephone Number: (416) 687-6041**

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)

**Performance Shares Unit Program**

**Vale Americas LLC**

**140 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Suite 415**

**South Tower, Paramus, New Jersey 07652**

**Telephone Number: (416) 687-6041**

**(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)**

*Copies to:*

***Julia L. Petty***

***Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP***

***One Liberty Plaza***

***New York, NY 10006***

***+1 (212) 225-2000***

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one).

Large accelerated filer ☒ Accelerated filer ☐ <br> Non-accelerated filer ☐ Smaller reporting company ☐ <br> Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

**DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES**

This Post-Effective Amendment (this "Post-Effective Amendment") deregisters all shares of Vale S.A. (the "Registrant") common stock, par value $0.000 per share ("Shares"), and any other securities remaining unissued, under the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"):

Registration Statement on <u>Form S-8</u> (No. 333-276867), which was filed with the Commission on February 5, 2024, pertaining to the registration of 6,605,593 Shares issuable under the Registrant's Performance Shares Unit Program.

The Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Brazil, on this December 17, 2025.

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| **Vale S.A.** | **Vale S.A.** |
| By: | <u>/s/ Gustavo Duarte Pimenta</u> |
| Name: | Gustavo Duarte Pimenta |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer |

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No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.