List of commodity booms

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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. WainsHotelDunedin.jpg
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.
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Uranium bubble of 2007

This is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.

BoomCommodityTypeLocationDates
First Chilean wheat cycle wheat agricultural Chile 1687–1810
Brazilian Gold Rush gold metal Brazil 18th century
Carolina Gold Rush gold metal North Carolina, USearly 19th century
Georgia Gold Rush gold metal Georgia, US1828 – early 1840s
Chilean silver rush silver metal Chile 1830–1850
Guano Era guano soft commodity Peru 1845 – c. 1870
California Gold Rush gold metal California, US1848–1855
Second Chilean wheat cycle wheat agricultural Chile mid-19th century – 1870s
British Columbia gold rushes gold metal British Columbia, Canada1850–1941
Australian gold rushes gold metalAustralia1851–1906
Pennsylvania oil rush petroleum fossil fuel northwestern Pennsylvania, US1859 – early 1870s
Otago Gold Rush gold metal Central Otago, New Zealand1860s
Colorado River mining boom gold metal Southwestern US 1861–64
West Coast Gold Rush gold metal West Coast, New Zealand1864–1867
Lapland gold rush gold metal Lapland, Finland1870s
Azerbaijan oil boom petroleum fossil fuel Azerbaijan 1870s
Black Hills Gold Rush gold metal Dakota Territory, US1874 – c. 1880
Patagonian sheep farming boom wool, mutton agricultural Patagonia late 19th to early 20th century
Coromandel Gold Rushes gold metal Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand1870s – 1880s
Cripple Creek Gold Rush gold metal Cripple Creek, Colorado, USlate 19th to early 20th century
Bodie gold rush gold metal Bodie, California, US1877–1880
First Amazon rubber boom rubber agricultural Amazon basin 1879–1912
Canadian wheat boomwheatagriculturalCanada, especially Prairie Provinces circa 1880 to 1910, and 1914 to 1921 [2] [3]
Indiana gas boom natural gas fossil fuel Indiana, USearly 1880s – early 20th century
Ohio oil rush petroleum fossil fuel Northwest Ohio, US1880s – 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, Canada1896–1899
Mount Baker Gold Rush gold metal Whatcom County, Washington, US1897 – mid-1920s
Nome Gold Rush gold metal Nome, Alaska, US1899–1909
Fairbanks Gold Rush gold metal Fairbanks, Alaska, USearly 1900s
Texas oil boom petroleum fossil fuel Texas, US1901 – 1940s
Cobalt silver rush silver metal Cobalt, Ontario, Canada1903 – c. 1930
Stoy, Illinois oil boom petroleum fossil fuel Stoy, Illinois, US1906–1910
Porcupine Gold Rush gold metal Northern Ontario, Canada1909 – 1950s
Kakamega gold rush gold metal Kakamega, Kenyaearly 1930s
Vatukoula gold rush gold metal Vatukoula, Fiji1932
Second Amazon rubber boom rubber agricultural Amazon basin 1942–1945
Alberta conventional oil boom petroleum fossil fuelAlberta, Canada1947 – 1980
New Zealand wool boom wool agricultural New Zealand 1951 – late 1950s
Mexican oil boom petroleum fossil fuel Mexico 1977–1981
1970s commodities boom multiplemultipleworldwide1970s
2000s commodities boom multiplemultipleworldwide2000s
Uranium bubble of 2007 uranium metalworldwide2005–2007
North Dakota oil boom petroleum, shale gas fossil fuel North Dakota, US2006 – c. 2015
Rhodium bubble [4] rhodium metalworldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia)2008
2020s commodities boom multiplemultipleworldwide2020s

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