CNN — A team of Tanzanian miners has discovered the largest tanzanite stones ever seen in the country's history. Saniniu Laizer, 52, a Maasai small scale miner and his team found the two stones -- ...

A small-scale miner from Tanzania become an overnight millionaire on Wednesday after he sold two rough tanzanite gemstones said to be the largest ever found in the country. Saniniu Laizer, 52, ...

A small-scale miner in Tanzania who had become an overnight millionaire over a month ago when he unearthed two of the biggest rough tanzanite gemstones ever found has struck it rich again, digging up ...

Saniniu Laizer said he wants to use his $3.4 million to improve his community and build a school Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Tanzanian small-scale miner Saniniu Kuryan Laizer, 52, poses with two of the biggest of the country's precious gemstones, Tanzanite. Getty Images A small-scale miner from Tanzania made another record ...

A Tanzanian man has hit the biggest jackpot of his life. Saniniu Laizer, a subsistence miner, working in one of the tanzanite mines, discovered two largest tanzanite gemstones. The government handed ...

A Tanzanian subsistence miner hit the jackpot on Wednesday after the government handed him a cheque for 7.74bn Tanzanian shillings ($3.35m or R57m) for the two largest tanzanite gemstones ever found.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — A team of Tanzanian miners has ...