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] 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 , USearly 19th century Georgia Gold Rush gold metal Georgia , US1828 – 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 , US1848–1855 Second Chilean wheat cycle wheat agricultural Chile 1849 – 1870s British Columbia gold rushes gold metal British Columbia , Canada1850–1941 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 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 1878 – 1920 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 boom wheat agricultural Canada, especially Prairie Provinces c. 1880 – 1910 , and 1914 – 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 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[ 4] Merluza boom[ 5] [ 6] fish hard commodity Chile 1980s Chilean salmon boom [ 7] [ 8] fish soft commodity Chile 1986–2007 Bolivian gas boom [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] 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 , US2006 – c. 2015 Rhodium bubble[ 12] rhodium metal worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia) 2008 2020s commodities boom multiple multiple worldwide 2020s
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