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 |
18th century
|
| Carolina gold rush |
gold |
metal |
North Carolina, US |
early 19th century
|
| Georgia Gold Rush |
gold |
metal |
Georgia, US |
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 |
California, US |
1848–1855
|
| Second Chilean wheat cycle |
wheat |
agricultural |
Chile |
1849 – 1870s
|
| British Columbia gold rushes |
gold |
metal |
British Columbia, Canada |
1850–1941
|
| Australian gold rushes |
gold |
metal |
Australia |
1851–1906
|
| Pennsylvania oil rush |
petroleum |
fossil fuel |
northwestern Pennsylvania, US |
1859 – early 1870s
|
| Otago gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Central Otago, New Zealand |
1860s
|
| Colorado River mining boom |
gold |
metal |
Southwestern US |
1861–64
|
| West Coast gold rush |
gold |
metal |
West Coast, New Zealand |
1864–1867
|
| Lapland gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Lapland, Finland |
1870s
|
| Azerbaijan oil boom |
petroleum |
fossil fuel |
Azerbaijan |
1870s
|
| Black Hills gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Dakota Territory, US |
1874 – c. 1880
|
| Patagonian sheep farming boom |
wool, mutton |
agricultural |
Patagonia |
1878 – 1920
|
| Coromandel Gold Rushes |
gold |
metal |
Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand |
1870s – 1880s
|
| Cripple Creek Gold Rush |
gold |
metal |
Cripple Creek, Colorado, US |
late 19th to early 20th century
|
| Bodie gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Bodie, California, US |
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 |
c. 1880 – 1910, and 1914 – 1921
|
| Indiana gas boom |
natural gas |
fossil fuel |
Indiana, US |
early 1880s – early 20th century
|
| Ohio oil rush |
petroleum |
fossil fuel |
Northwest Ohio, US |
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 |
Klondike, Yukon, Canada |
1896–1899
|
| Mount Baker gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Whatcom County, Washington, US |
1897 – mid-1920s
|
| Nome Gold Rush |
gold |
metal |
Nome, Alaska, US |
1899–1909
|
| Fairbanks Gold Rush |
gold |
metal |
Fairbanks, Alaska, US |
early 1900s
|
| Texas oil boom |
petroleum |
fossil fuel |
Texas, US |
1901 – 1940s
|
| Cobalt silver rush |
silver |
metal |
Cobalt, Ontario, Canada |
1903 – c. 1930
|
| Stoy, Illinois oil boom |
petroleum |
fossil fuel |
Stoy, Illinois, US |
1906–1910
|
| Porcupine Gold Rush |
gold |
metal |
Northern Ontario, Canada |
1909 – 1950s
|
| Kakamega gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Kakamega, Kenya |
early 1930s
|
| Vatukoula gold rush |
gold |
metal |
Vatukoula, Fiji |
1932
|
| Second Amazon rubber boom |
rubber |
agricultural |
Amazon basin |
1942–1945
|
| Alberta conventional oil boom |
petroleum |
fossil fuel |
Alberta, Canada |
1947 – 1980
|
| New Zealand wool boom |
wool |
agricultural |
New Zealand |
1951 – late 1950s
|
| Bonanza marimbera |
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 |
North Dakota, US |
2006 – c. 2015
|
| Rhodium bubble |
rhodium |
metal |
worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia) |
2008
|
| 2020s commodities boom |
multiple |
multiple |
worldwide |
2020s
|