LEX Longhorn Exploration Corp

TORONTO, Dec. 31 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, Dec. 31 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, December 31, 2010:  -- Lexam Exploration Inc. (TSXVN:LEX) will be removed from the index. The shares of the company have been acquired by VG Gold Corp. pursuant to an Arrangement Agreement. Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company. About S&P Indices S&P Indices, a part of McGraw-Hill Financial, is the world's leading index provider maintaining a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents, the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely-watched commodities index and the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal bonds. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices. About McGraw-Hill Financial McGraw-Hill Financial, a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is a leading provider of research and analytical tools for investment advisors, wealth managers and institutional investors. It deploys the latest innovative technology strategies to deliver to customers a portfolio of cross-asset analytics, integrated desktop services, valuation and index benchmarks and investment recommendations in the rapidly growing $16 billion financial information, data and analytics market. To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/31/c8193.html table valign="top" border="0"trtdTony Northbr/ (416) 507-3204br/ a href="mailto:sp_index@standardandpoors.com"sp_index@standardandpoors.com/abr/ br//td td /td td /td td align="left" valign="top"Dave Guarinobr/ 1 212 438 1471br/ a href="mailto:Dave_guarino@standardandpoors.com"Dave_guarino@standardandpoors.com/a/td/tr/table

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