# List of commodity booms

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 | 1830–1850 |
| 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 | mid-19th century – 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 | late 19th to early 20th century |
| 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 |
| Canadian wheat boom | wheat | agricultural | Canada, especially Prairie Provinces | circa 1880 to 1910, and 1914 to 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 |
| Mexican oil boom | petroleum | fossil fuel | Mexico | 1977–1981 |
| 1970s commodities boom | multiple | multiple | worldwide | 1970s |
| Merluza boom | fish | hard commodity | Chile | 1980s |
| Chilean salmon boom | fish | soft commodity | Chile | 1986–2007 |
| 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 |