Kwekwe District minerals including gold and iron ore. The largest steel manufacturing factory, Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO), is located in the district in the town of Redcliff, near the city of Kwekwe, the district capital. The district contains many large and small mines and several large steel mills. The district is located in Zimbabwe's Highveld at an altitude of about , above sea level. It is located in the tropics but its high altitude modifies this to a warm temperate climate. The average annual temperature is . As with much of the Highveld, summers are long but not hot as
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway the road feeds Gokwe-East, Mabura, Empress Mine and Sidakeni. From the A5 the Gokwe-Empress Road branches westwards south of Kadoma at A5 Empress Mine Turnoff" a place popularly called "Mtarimanja" and officially Muzvezve. Muzvezve is a river across the A5 a few kilometres north of this turn-off. The Muzvezve-Chemagora Road goes for as a link to the R847 Highway which is the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway or the P11. It passes through Venice Mine and Donain before reaching the Munyati River Bridge (Empress). It enters Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway at Chemagora, popularly known as Empress Turnoff. Sembeula Road branches left just before