[1] Mufulira is located approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the town of Mokambo, at the international border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[2] A tarmac highway to the south-west (the M4 road) connects Mufulira to Kitwe, 43 kilometres (27 mi) away.

[3] The city of Ndola, the commercial and transport hub of the Copperbelt, lies approximately 105 kilometres (65 mi), by road, southeast of Mufulira.

[4] Mufulira is connected to the Mokambo Border and eventually the Luapula Province of Zambia by the Congo Pedicle road.

Production and employment levels went down from the 1969 peak when the Copperbelt made Zambia the world's 4th largest copper producer.