Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

    




 TORONTO, Oct. 27, 2011 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following  changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of  trading on Thursday, October 27, 2011: 




        --  Inca Pacific Resources Inc. (TSXVN:IPR) will be removed from
            the index. The shares of the company will be delisted from the
            TSX Venture Exchange having been acquired by Compania Mineral
            Milpo SAA (Lima:MIL).




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