Like most Chicagoans ... for both stocks and bonds were negative. Meanwhile, natural-resources–based investments, including gold, were the best-performing asset class over that span.

Minerals are naturally occurring substances, with a crystal structure, such as limestone, clay, iron ore and gold. Aggregates are materials in many small pieces, which are often used in the ...

The CGS, a division of the Ministry of Natural Resources ... on key metallogenic zones such as Jiaodong and major gold resource bases like Hadamengou, 47 target areas have been identified and ...