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Brazil was highlighted in the overall merger and acquisition of mining and metals in 2009 and should remain as one of the top 20 of the sector in 2010. So show the deals announced at the beginning of the year by Vale and CSN, evaluates Luiz Claudio Campos, director of project finance at Ernst & Young to Brazil. The firm has just completed study on global transactions in the Department of Mining and Metals in 2009, to which the value had access. Campos said the appetite that have shown the large Brazilian companies to go shopping, citing an announcement made by the worth of its acquisitions of assets fertilizer Bunge Holdings and Investments earlier this year, which cost $ 5.5 billion, including shares of Fosfértil, Mosaic and Yara. In the case of CSN, said a hostile bid of more than $ 6 billion offer for control of the Portuguese cement Cimpor, a business held by two other major national groups - Votorantim and Camargo Correa. In 2009, Brazil finished fourth and sixth places respectively in the ranking of the top 20 target markets and buyers of the 20 largest asset ore and metals in the global market, according to a survey of E & Y. Vale was on the list of 13 "megadeals" in 2009, cited in two transactions. In the company acted as a buyer of shares in ThyssenKrupp CSA, in an operation to increase participation in future steel plant, for which it paid $ 1.4 billion. In another, the Valley was a takeover target to have its preferred shares (PN) acquired in the market by Barclays PLC, Bank of the United Kingdom, which disbursed $ 3.5 billion for a volume of papers equal to 5% of the total capital mining. In these operations, Vale, as shown in the study, accounted for total purchases of assets worth almost $ 3 billion, adding to participate in the CSA. The mining company paid $ 750 million mine iron ore from Corumbá (MS) and $ 850 million for potash mines in Argentina and Canada from Australian rival Rio Tinto. Usiminas is also mentioned in consulting services targeting the Japanese. Nippon Steel, one of the Brazilian steel company controlled, spent $ 205 million to add 3.4% of its shareholding in the company, leaving 26.7% in the company. Director of Project Finance for E & Y says that among the group of Brazilian companies is the potential acquisition of Vale in 2010. "The Valley so far spent only half the cash of $ 15 billion that has to go shopping." He said the goal of mining is to diversify your portfolio and add value to its mining assets. Fields believes that the EBX Group, owner of mining company MMX, also could be a "player" consolidator in this segment, as soon materialize their business. The work of Ernst & Young shows that Brazil is among the top recipients investments in mining last year. This should be repeated this year, mainly from China, a leading mergers and acquisitions in the world and growing appetite for metal and mineral assets of the South American countries. In 2009, China was the champion of mergers and acquisitions in the mining and metals, according to E & Y. Overall, during the period, were closed in this business segment in 1047 totaling $ 60 billion, with China accounting for 27% of this value. In 2008, these transactions totaled 919 and generated U.S. $ 126.9 billion. The figures confirm the fall in asset value in the post-crisis. In 2010, Campos provides that mining assets tend to appreciate due to the increase in commodity prices and will target the emerging countries that have active position as buyers, led by China, and India and Brazil. "The large companies in emerging markets in the internationalization process will go on the hunt for assets in developed countries, still weakened by the crisis," he noted. But the executive alert to the fact that the world economy will still volatile and the bank credit scarce.