S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes to the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

AuRico shareholders will receive 0.5046 shares of new Alamos for each share held. The 27.9 million shares of The relative weight of Alamos Gold will increase in the S&P/TSX Composite, Capped Composite and Composite Equal Weight, the S&P/TSX Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials, the S&P/TSX Global Mining, Global Gold and Equal Weight Global Gold and the S&P/TSX Composite Dividend Indices after the close of trading on assets will be spun out into a newly-created company named AuRico Metals Inc. .