Vale S A : Excerpt of the minutes of the ordinary meeting of the Board of Directors

CNPJ 33.592.510/0001-54

NIRE 33.300.019.766

EXCERPT OF THE MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors ("Board") met on May 26, 2022, from 8:30 am to 09:00 am, at Praia de Botafogo, 186, room 1901, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, and by videoconference, being present Messrs. José Luciano Duarte Penido - Chairman ("PCA"), Daniel André Stieler, Eduardo de Oliveira Rodrigues Filho, Ken Yasuhara, Lucio Azevedo, Manuel Lino Silva de Sousa Oliveira, Marcelo Gasparino da Silva, Mauro Rodrigues da Cunha, Murilo Cesar Lemos dos Santos Passos, Rachel de Oliveira Maia, Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco and Roger Allan Downey. Mr. Luiz Gustavo Gouvêa was present as Secretary of Corporate Governance at Vale S.A. ("Vale"). Thus, the Board of Directors approved the following subject: "ELECTION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND RESPECTIVE COORDINATORS - The Board unanimously approved the appointment or reappointment, as the case may be, of the following people to compose the Advisory Committees to Vale's Board: (i) Audit Committee: Manuel Lino Silva de Sousa Oliveira (Coordinator), Murilo Cesar Lemos dos Santos Passos, Rachel de Oliveira Maia, Luciana Pires Dias (external specialist) and Sergio Ricardo Romani (external

specialist); (ii) Operational Excellence and Risk Committee: Roger Allan Downey

(Coordinator), André Viana Madeira and Eduardo de Oliveira Rodrigues Filho; (iii) Financial Committee: Daniel André Stieler (Coordinator), Fernando Jorge Buso Gomes, Murilo Cesar Lemos dos Santos Passos and Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco; (iv) Innovation Committee: Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco (Coordinator), André Viana Madeira, Ken Yasuhara andRoger Allan Downey; (v) Personnel, Compensation and Governance Committee: Mauro Gentile Rodrigues da Cunha (Coordinator), Eduardo de Oliveira Rodrigues Filho, Fernando Jorge Buso Gomes and José Luciano Duarte Penido; (vi) Sustainability Committee: Marcelo Gasparino da Silva (Coordinator), Ken Yasuhara, Mauro Gentile Rodrigues da Cunha and Rachel de Oliveira Maia; and (vii) Nomination Committee: José Luciano Duarte Penido (Coordinator), Daniel André Stieler, Marcelo Gasparino da Silva and Manuel Lino Silva de Sousa Oliveira; all to meet the term of management from 06.01.2022 to Vale's Ordinary General Meeting to be held in 2023. Thus, the Board of Directors unanimously approved the hiring Mr. Antônio Queiroz and Mr. Luiz Carlos Affonso, as external advisors without voting recommendation, to compose the Operational Excellence and Risk Committee and Innovation Committee, respectively. The Board approved, by majority, the amendment of item 2.1 of the Internal Rules of the Personnel, Compensation and Governance Committee and the Financial Committee to provide that the number of independent members must be at least equal to the number of non-independent members. The Director Mauro Cunha registered the contrary vote considering a retrocession the elimination of the application for an independent majority in these committees. Therefore, agreed with the proposed composition for consensus, but registered, in his opinion, considers that the new composition does not best way to allocate strengths of the Directors to the scope of Committees. "I hereby attest that the item above reflects the decision taken by the Board of Directors.

Rio de Janeiro, May 26, 2022.

Luiz Gustavo Gouvêa

Secretário