Several hundred miners have ended a strike that started earlier this week and dragged down operations at Petra Diamonds mines in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The sit-in strike over working conditions and wages started on October 2 and was one of several work stoppages in the past several weeks that have rattled the mining sector in Africa's largest economy. It has ended with no deal. The workforce of about 600 just agreed to return to posts late on Friday. Petra, which has interests in seven operating mines in South Africa and one in Tanzania, expects to produce 2.85-million carats in 2013.