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"2011 was a challenging year for the nuclear industry," said CEO Tim Gitzel. "However, it was business as usual for us, and in some ways, even better than usual.

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Cameco Corp. Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results Conference Call.

In trading on Friday, metals & mining shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3.2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Usec , down about 11.2% and shares of Uranerz Energy off about 5.6% on the day.

Workers walk in a reinforced underground tunnel at the Cigar Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan, in ths company handout photo.

"2011 was a challenging year for the nuclear industry," said CEO Tim Gitzel. "However, it was business as usual for us, and in some ways, even better than usual.

Stifel Nicolaus assumed coverage on shares of Titanium Metals Corp in a research note issued on Thursday.

Canada has reached a deal with China that will make it easier for Cameco Corp and other Canadian uranium producers to sell nuclear fuel into the fastest-growing market for atomic power.

Bureaucrats at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will be nervously watching the stock market for the next five years.

Uranium miners and the radioactive commodity itself depreciated significantly during 2011.

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The company will unveil its latest earnings on Tuesday, February 7. RTI International Metals is a producer and global supplier of titanium mill products.

Employees at USEC Inc.'s American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon recently reached a major industrial safety milestone by working two million hours without experiencing a days-away injury.

Thanks to the disaster in Japan almost a year ago, the nuclear power sector, and more specifically, companies that mine uranium, have been extremely hard hit.

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Many in our community now believe that President Barack Obama has chosen to ignore his campaign promise to us that he made last fall.

Cameco , one of the world's largest uranium producers, will announce its Q4 results next Thursday evening .

With SPY recently surpassing the $100bn asset threshold, it is time to re-visit an over-looked counterpart to the capitalization weighted SPY: equal weighted RSP .

Immense cash flows enable Super Miners to go further and deeper than anyone else in the mining business, and they produce almost everything from industrial metals such as copper and zinc to metallurgical coal and iron ore used to manufacture steel.

Equities research analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. started coverage on shares of Titanium Metals Corp in a research note issued to investors on Monday.