Workers walk past a Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine, June 24, 2014. REUTERS/Skyler Reid
MARIKANA South Africa (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of South African platinum miners returned to work on Wednesday after wage deals ended the longest and most damaging strike in the country's history.
The five-month strike hit 40 percent of global production of the precious metal and has cost Lonmin, Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum a combined 24 billion rand (£1.3 billion) in lost revenue.
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