QUETTA: An aeromagnetic survey of Baluchistan areas would be taken in hand in October this year with Canadian assistance. This was disclosed here today [May 6] by the Federal Minister of State for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, Mir Taj Mohammad Jamali. He said the survey, to be conducted under an arrangement ... between the Governments of Pakistan and Canada, would take six months...

. [Mr Jamali] ... said that Rs. four crores were being spent to determine copper deposits in Saindak area of Chagai district. Qualitative as well as quantitative report about these deposits ... would be available in July this year.

He said that a mini steel plant was proposed to be set up somewhere in Chagai district with Chinese assistance. News agencies [In another report from Quetta,] the death toll in Sunday`s [May 4] mine disaster in Narwar rose to twenty ... when an injured miner died in the Civil Hospital. ...

Baluchistan Chief Minister Jam Ghulam Q adir visited the six injured who now remain in hospital and announced a donation of Rs 5,000 for them. He also instructed the hospital authorities to provide best treatment. ...

Meanwhile, the judicial and departmental inquiriesinto the accident are continuing.