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<LEGEND>
     This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from
Titanium Metals Corporation's Consolidated Financial Statements for the nine
months ended September 30, 2000 and is qualified in its entirety by reference
to such Consolidaed Financial Statements.
</LEGEND>
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