[1] The town is close to Frontier copper mine, one of the largest in the country.

[2] On the other side of the near borderline is the Zambian city of Ndola in the Copperbelt Province.

The city is served by the operating sections of the Cape to Cairo Railway.

It has a station on the railway between Ndola in the south and Lubumbashi in the north-west.

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