List of commodity booms
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 | 2008 |
| 2020s commodities boom | multiple | multiple | worldwide | 2020s |