Kabezi

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Kabezi
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Kabezi
Coordinates: 3°32′12″S29°20′55″E / 3.5368°S 29.34848°E / -3.5368; 29.34848
Country Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi
Province Bujumbura Rural Province
Commune Commune of Kabezi
Time zone UTC+2 (Central Africa Time)

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. [1]

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. [2] The Kabezi plant did crushing and gravity separation. [3] In August 2021 Rainbow Rare Earths announced that almost all staff had been placed on suspension. [4]

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References

  1. Node: Kabezi (1673541099).
  2. Reichhardt, Witley & Hudson 2019, p. 8.
  3. Gakara Rare Earth Project NSE.
  4. Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Announces Update.

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