List of commodity booms


This is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.
BoomCommodityTypeLocationDates
First Chilean wheat cyclewheatagriculturalChile1687–1810
Brazilian Gold RushgoldmetalBrazil
Carolina gold rushgoldmetal
Georgia Gold Rushgoldmetal1828 – early 1840s
Chilean silver rushsilvermetalChile1832 – c. 1855
Chilean copper boomcoppermetalChile1850 – c. 1875
Guano Eraguanohard commodityPeru1845 – c. 1870
California gold rushgoldmetal1848–1855
Second Chilean wheat cyclewheatagriculturalChile
British Columbia gold rushesgoldmetal1850–1941
Australian gold rushesgoldmetalAustralia1851–1906
Pennsylvania oil rushpetroleumfossil fuel1859 – early 1870s
Otago gold rushgoldmetal1860s
Colorado River mining boomgoldmetal1861–64
West Coast gold rushgoldmetal1864–1867
Lapland gold rushgoldmetal1870s
Azerbaijan oil boompetroleumfossil fuelAzerbaijan1870s
Black Hills gold rushgoldmetal1874 – c. 1880
Patagonian sheep farming boomwool, muttonagriculturalPatagonia1878 – 1920
Coromandel Gold Rushesgoldmetal1870s – 1880s
Cripple Creek Gold Rushgoldmetal
Bodie gold rushgoldmetal1877–1880
First Amazon rubber boomrubberagriculturalAmazon basin1879–1912
Colorado Silver BoomsilvermetalColorado, US1879–1893
Canadian wheat boomwheatagriculturalCanada, especially Prairie Provinces
Indiana gas boomnatural gasfossil fuel
Ohio oil rushpetroleumfossil fuel1880s – 1930s
Tierra del Fuego gold rushgoldmetalTierra del Fuego1883–1906
Witwatersrand Gold RushgoldmetalSouth Africa1886
Klondike Gold Rushgoldmetal1896–1899
Mount Baker gold rushgoldmetal1897 – mid-1920s
Nome Gold Rushgoldmetal1899–1909
Fairbanks Gold Rushgoldmetal
Texas oil boompetroleumfossil fuel1901 – 1940s
Cobalt silver rushsilvermetal1903 – c. 1930
Stoy, Illinois oil boompetroleumfossil fuel1906–1910
Porcupine Gold Rushgoldmetal1909 – 1950s
Kakamega gold rushgoldmetal
Vatukoula gold rushgoldmetal1932
Second Amazon rubber boomrubberagriculturalAmazon basin1942–1945
Alberta conventional oil boompetroleumfossil fuel1947 – 1980
New Zealand wool boomwoolagriculturalNew Zealand1951 – late 1950s
cannabisagriculturalColombia1974–1985
Mexican oil boompetroleumfossil fuelMexico1977–1981
1970s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide1970s
Cocaine eracocaineagriculturalColombia1985–1994
Merluza boomfishhard commodityChile1980s
Chilean salmon boomfishsoft commodityChile1986–2007
Bolivian gas boomnatural gasfossil fuelBolivia2001 – 2014
2000s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide2000s
Uranium bubble of 2007uraniummetalworldwide2005–2007
North Dakota oil boompetroleum, shale gasfossil fuel2006 – c. 2015
Rhodium bubblerhodiummetalworldwide 2008
2020s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide2020s