Kabezi
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|subdivision_name1=Bujumbura Rural Province
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Kabezi is a town in Bujumbura Rural Province in Burundi.
Kabezi is in the Commune of Kabezi, just east of the RN 3 highway, which runs south from Bujumbura along the shore of Lake Tanganyika.
It contains the Kabezi Hospital.{{sfn|Node: Kabezi (1673541099)}}
Rainbow Mining Burundi's rare earth ore processing plant was built in 2018 near the town of Kabezi between Lake Tanganyika to the west and the RN3 road to the east.{{sfn|Reichhardt|Witley|Hudson|2019|p=8}}
The Kabezi plant did crushing and gravity separation.{{sfn|Gakara Rare Earth Project NSE}}
In August 2021 Rainbow Rare Earths announced that almost all staff had been placed on suspension.{{sfn|Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Announces Update}}
References
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- {{citation |url=https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/gakara-rare-earth-project/?cf-view |accessdate=2024-09-23
|title=Gakara Rare Earth Project |date=20 October 2020 |publisher=NS Energy |ref={{harvid|Gakara Rare Earth Project NSE}} }}
- {{citation |url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1673541099 |accessdate=2024-08-12
|title=Node: Kabezi (1673541099) |work=OpenStreetMap |ref={{harvid|Node: Kabezi (1673541099)}} }}
- {{citation |work=Market Screener |ref={{harvid|Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Announces Update}}
|title=Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Announces Update on Trial Mining Operations from the Gakara Project in Burundi |date=5 August 2021
|url=https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/RAINBOW-RARE-EARTHS-LIMIT-33647072/news/Rainbow-Rare-Earths-Limited-Announces-Update-on-Trial-Mining-Operations-from-the-Gakara-Project-in-B-36120878/ |accessdate=2024-09-24}}
- {{citation |url=https://rainbowrareearths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/J4048-Rainbow-Gakara-CPR-04-June-2019-Final.pdf |accessdate=2024-09-23
|last1=Reichhardt |first1=Friedrich |first2=Jeremy |last2=Witley |first3=Jonathan |last3=Hudson
|title=Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Gakara REE Project Burundi |publisher=The MSA Group (Pty) Ltd |date=4 June 2019}}
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