This is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.
Boom Commodity Type Location Dates First Chilean wheat cycle wheat agricultural Chile 1687–1810 Brazilian Gold Rush gold metal Brazil Carolina gold rush gold metal Georgia Gold Rush gold metal 1828 – early 1840s Chilean silver rush silver metal Chile 1832 – c. 1855 Chilean copper boom copper metal Chile 1850 – c. 1875 Guano Era guano hard commodity Peru 1845 – c. 1870 California gold rush gold metal 1848–1855 Second Chilean wheat cycle wheat agricultural Chile British Columbia gold rushes gold metal 1850–1941 Australian gold rushes gold metal Australia 1851–1906 Pennsylvania oil rush petroleum fossil fuel 1859 – early 1870s Otago gold rush gold metal 1860s Colorado River mining boom gold metal 1861–64 West Coast gold rush gold metal 1864–1867 Lapland gold rush gold metal 1870s Azerbaijan oil boom petroleum fossil fuel Azerbaijan 1870s Black Hills gold rush gold metal 1874 – c. 1880 Patagonian sheep farming boom wool, mutton agricultural Patagonia 1878 – 1920 Coromandel Gold Rushes gold metal 1870s – 1880s Cripple Creek Gold Rush gold metal Bodie gold rush gold metal 1877–1880 First Amazon rubber boom rubber agricultural Amazon basin 1879–1912 Colorado Silver Boom silver metal Colorado, US 1879–1893 Canadian wheat boom wheat agricultural Canada, especially Prairie Provinces Indiana gas boom natural gas fossil fuel Ohio oil rush petroleum fossil fuel 1880s – 1930s Tierra del Fuego gold rush gold metal Tierra del Fuego 1883–1906 Witwatersrand Gold Rush gold metal South Africa 1886 Klondike Gold Rush gold metal 1896–1899 Mount Baker gold rush gold metal 1897 – mid-1920s Nome Gold Rush gold metal 1899–1909 Fairbanks Gold Rush gold metal Texas oil boom petroleum fossil fuel 1901 – 1940s Cobalt silver rush silver metal 1903 – c. 1930 Stoy, Illinois oil boom petroleum fossil fuel 1906–1910 Porcupine Gold Rush gold metal 1909 – 1950s Kakamega gold rush gold metal Vatukoula gold rush gold metal 1932 Second Amazon rubber boom rubber agricultural Amazon basin 1942–1945 Alberta conventional oil boom petroleum fossil fuel 1947 – 1980 New Zealand wool boom wool agricultural New Zealand 1951 – late 1950s cannabis agricultural Colombia 1974–1985 Mexican oil boom petroleum fossil fuel Mexico 1977–1981 1970s commodities boom multiple multiple worldwide 1970s Cocaine era cocaine agricultural Colombia 1985–1994 Merluza boom fish hard commodity Chile 1980s Chilean salmon boom fish soft commodity Chile 1986–2007 Bolivian gas boom natural gas fossil fuel Bolivia 2001 – 2014 2000s commodities boom multiple multiple worldwide 2000s Uranium bubble of 2007 uranium metal worldwide 2005–2007 North Dakota oil boom petroleum, shale gas fossil fuel 2006 – c. 2015 Rhodium bubble rhodium metal worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia) 2008 2020s commodities boom multiple multiple worldwide 2020s
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