List of commodity booms


This is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.
BoomCommodityTypeLocationDates
First Chilean [wheat cycle]wheatagriculturalChile1687–1810
Brazilian Gold RushgoldmetalBrazil
Carolina [gold rush]goldmetal
Georgia Gold Rushgoldmetal1828 – early 1840s
Chilean [silver rush]silvermetalChile1832 – 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
Steamboats of the [Colorado River#Colorado River Mining Boom|Colorado River mining boom]goldmetal1861–64
West Coast gold rushgoldmetal1864–1867
Lapland gold rushgoldmetal1870s
Azerbaijan oil boompetroleumfossil fuelAzerbaijan1870s
Black Hills gold rushgoldmetal1874 – c. 1880
Patagonian [sheep farming boom]wool, muttonagriculturalPatagonia1878 – 1920
Coromandel Gold Rushesgoldmetal1870s – 1880s
Cripple Creek Gold Rushgoldmetal
Bodie gold rushgoldmetal1877–1880
First Amazon [rubber boom]rubberagriculturalAmazon 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 boom]woolagriculturalNew Zealand1951 – late 1950s
cannabisagriculturalColombia1974–1985
Mexican oil boompetroleumfossil fuelMexico1977–1981
commodities boom">commodity">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