List of commodity booms

This is a list of economic booms created by commodities.

BoomCommodityTypeLocationDates
First Chilean wheat cyclewheatagriculturalChile1687–1810
Brazilian Gold RushgoldmetalBrazil18th century
Carolina Gold RushgoldmetalNorth Carolina, USearly 19th century
Georgia Gold RushgoldmetalGeorgia, US1828 – early 1840s
Chilean silver rushsilvermetalChile1830–1850
Guano Eraguanosoft commodityPeru1845 – c. 1870
California Gold RushgoldmetalCalifornia, US1848–1855
Second Chilean wheat cyclewheatagriculturalChilemid-19th century – 1870s
British Columbia gold rushesgoldmetalBritish Columbia, Canada1850–1941
Australian gold rushesgoldmetalAustralia1851–1906
Pennsylvania oil rushpetroleumfossil fuelnorthwestern Pennsylvania, US1859 – early 1870s
Otago Gold RushgoldmetalCentral Otago, New Zealand1860s
Colorado River mining boomgoldmetalSouthwestern US1861–64
West Coast Gold RushgoldmetalWest Coast, New Zealand1864–1867
Lapland gold rushgoldmetalLapland, Finland1870s
Azerbaijan oil boompetroleumfossil fuelAzerbaijan1870s
Pilgrim's Rest gold rushgoldmetalPilgrim's Rest, Mpumalanga, South Africa1873
Black Hills Gold RushgoldmetalDakota Territory, US1874 – c. 1880
Patagonian sheep farming boomwool, muttonagriculturalPatagonialate 19th to early 20th century
Coromandel Gold RushesgoldmetalCoromandel Peninsula, New Zealand1870s – 1880s
Cripple Creek Gold RushgoldmetalCripple Creek, Colorado, USlate 19th to early 20th century
Bodie gold rushgoldmetalBodie, California, US1877–1880
First Amazon rubber boomrubberagriculturalAmazon basin1879–1912
Indiana gas boomnatural gasfossil fuelIndiana, USearly 1880s – early 20th century
Ohio oil rushpetroleumfossil fuelNorthwest Ohio, US1880s – 1930s
Tierra del Fuego gold rushgoldmetalTierra del Fuego1883–1906
Witwatersrand Gold RushgoldmetalSouth Africa1886
Klondike Gold RushgoldmetalKlondike, Yukon, Canada1896–1899
Mount Baker Gold RushgoldmetalWhatcom County, Washington, US1897 – mid-1920s
Nome Gold RushgoldmetalNome, Alaska, US1899–1909
Fairbanks Gold RushgoldmetalFairbanks, Alaska, USearly 1900s
Texas oil boompetroleumfossil fuelTexas, US1901 – 1940s
Cobalt silver rushsilvermetalCobalt, Ontario, Canada1903 – c. 1930
Stoy, Illinois oil boompetroleumfossil fuelStoy, Illinois, US1906–1910
Porcupine Gold RushgoldmetalNorthern Ontario, Canada1909 – 1950s
Kakamega gold rushgoldmetalKakamega, Kenyaearly 1930s
Vatukoula gold rushgoldmetalVatukoula, Fiji1932
Second Amazon rubber boomrubberagriculturalAmazon basin1942–1945
Calgary oil boompetroleumfossil fuelCalgary, Alberta, Canada1947 – early 1980s
New Zealand wool boomwoolacriculturalNew Zealand1951 – late 1950s
Mexican oil boompetroleumfossil fuelMexico1977–1981
2000s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide2000s
Uranium bubble of 2007uraniummetalworldwide2005–2007
North Dakota oil boompetroleum, shale gasfossil fuelNorth Dakota, US2006 – present (as of 2015)
Rhodium bubble[2]rhodiummetalworldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia)2008
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Merchant ships fill San Francisco harbor, 1850–51.
The stately Victorian architecture of Dunedin, New Zealand, is a result of the capital brought into the city by the Otago Gold Rush of the 1860s.
Uranium bubble of 2007[1]

References
  1. "NUEXCO Exchange Value (Monthly Uranium Spot)". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  2. "Historical Rhodium Charts". Kitco. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
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