1.   Brazil set the minimum price for the iron ore mining company above some of the suggested prices from consultants hired to prepare the company for sale.

2.   A minority of the iron ore company is currently publicly owned.

3.   Other gainers included iron ore company Cia. Vale do Rio Doce and steelmaker Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais.

4.   Shares of the iron ore company dropped after it announced one of its major customers, McLouth Steel Products Inc., has stopped making steel.

5.   The fourth most heavily weighted component of the Bovespa index is Cia. Vale Do Rio Doce, a state-controlled iron ore mining company.

6.   The fourth member of the consortium, Possehl of Germany, is an ore trading company.

7.   - Peter White and Andrew Young, British employees of ore mining company.