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 and the Ngondoma River. There are no sizable rivers on the Gokwe side across the highway until after the town. Luveve-Donjane Road branches right, passes through Tiger Reef gold mine and stretches 48.3 km, a 42 minutes drive to Mushangi Shopping Center in Donjane joining the Somalala-Sidakeni Road there. This is the shortest route from Kwekwe to Zhombe East, yet it is the slowest, as it is all gravel with a number of undone small bridges. However, there is one big bridge across the Sesombe River. Luveve-Nkayi Road ia a paved road officially called P8 Highway. It branches left at