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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000216851-16-000062
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	NSAR-B
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20151231
FILED AS OF DATE:		20160229
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160229
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20160229

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ADAMS NATURAL RESOURCES FUND, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000216851
		IRS NUMBER:				135506797
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		NSAR-B
		SEC ACT:		1940 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	811-02736
		FILM NUMBER:		161466506

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 EAST PRATT STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1300
		CITY:			BALTIMORE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21202
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4107525900

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 EAST PRATT STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1300
		CITY:			BALTIMORE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21202

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ADAMS NATURAL RESOURCES FUND
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20150331

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PETROLEUM & RESOURCES CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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SIGNATURE   BRIAN S. HOOK
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm


To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Adams Natural
Resources Fund, Inc.:

In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. ("the
Company") as of and for the year ended December 31, 2015 in
accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we considered
the Company's internal control over financial reporting,
including controls over safeguarding securities, as a basis
for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to
comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, but not for the
purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Company's internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the
effectiveness of the Company's internal control over
financial reporting.

The management of the Company is responsible for
establishing and maintaining effective internal control over
financial reporting. In fulfilling this responsibility,
estimates and judgments by management are required to assess
the expected benefits and related costs of controls. A
company's internal control over financial reporting is a
process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding
the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's
internal control over financial reporting includes those
policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance
of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly
reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of
the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation
of financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and
expenditures of the company are being made only in
accordance with authorizations of management and directors
of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance
regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use or disposition of a company's assets that
could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over
financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to
future periods are subject to the risk that controls may
become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that
the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may
deteriorate.

A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting
exists when the design or operation of a control does not
allow management or employees, in the normal course of
performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect
misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a
deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal
control over financial reporting, such that there is a
reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the
Company's annual or interim financial statements will not be
prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Our consideration of the Company's internal control over
financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in
the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all
deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting
that might be material weaknesses under standards
established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). However, we noted no deficiencies in the
Company's internal control over financial reporting and its
operation, including controls over safeguarding securities,
that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above
as of December 31, 2015.

This report is intended solely for the information and use
of management and the Board of Directors of Adams Natural
Resources Fund, Inc. and the Securities and Exchange
Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used
by anyone other than these specified parties.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Baltimore, Maryland
February 12, 2016
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Sub-Item 77Q-2 for PEO N-SAR:

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Mark E. Stoeckle, Chief Executive Officer for the registrant,
inadvertently failed to file on a timely basis in February 2015 a
Form 4 for the reporting of vested shares pursuant to the
registrant's 2005 Equity Incentive Compensation Plan that were
withheld to cover the corresponding tax liability.  This
transaction was subsequently reported one day late.
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