CHM Champion Minerals Inc.

TORONTO, Sept. 23 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, Sept. 23 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Thursday, September 23, 2010:  -- Champion Minerals Inc. (TSXVN:CHM) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on TSX under the same ticker symbol. 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, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. 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 Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data.  With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for nearly 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit: www.standardandpoors.com table valign="top" border="0"tr valign="top"td valign="top" align="left" height="75"Tony Northbr/(416) 507-3204br/a href="mailto:sp_index@standardandpoors.com"sp_index@standardandpoors.com/a/td td align="right"                        /td td valign="top" align="left"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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