List of commodity boomsThis is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.BoomCommodityTypeLocationDatesFirst Chilean wheat cyclewheatagriculturalChile1687–1810Brazilian Gold RushgoldmetalBrazilCarolina gold rushgoldmetalGeorgia Gold Rushgoldmetal1828 – early 1840sChilean silver rushsilvermetalChile1832 – c. 1855Chilean copper boomcoppermetalChile1850 – c. 1875Guano Eraguanohard commodityPeru1845 – c. 1870California gold rushgoldmetal1848–1855Second Chilean wheat cyclewheatagriculturalChileBritish Columbia gold rushesgoldmetal1850–1941Australian gold rushesgoldmetalAustralia1851–1906Pennsylvania oil rushpetroleumfossil fuel1859 – early 1870sOtago gold rushgoldmetal1860sColorado River mining boomgoldmetal1861–64West Coast gold rushgoldmetal1864–1867Lapland gold rushgoldmetal1870sAzerbaijan oil boompetroleumfossil fuelAzerbaijan1870sBlack Hills gold rushgoldmetal1874 – c. 1880Patagonian sheep farming boomwool, muttonagriculturalPatagonia1878 – 1920Coromandel Gold Rushesgoldmetal1870s – 1880sCripple Creek Gold RushgoldmetalBodie gold rushgoldmetal1877–1880First Amazon rubber boomrubberagriculturalAmazon basin1879–1912Colorado Silver BoomsilvermetalColorado, US1879–1893Canadian wheat boomwheatagriculturalCanada, especially Prairie ProvincesIndiana gas boomnatural gasfossil fuelOhio oil rushpetroleumfossil fuel1880s – 1930sTierra del Fuego gold rushgoldmetalTierra del Fuego1883–1906Witwatersrand Gold RushgoldmetalSouth Africa1886Klondike Gold Rushgoldmetal1896–1899Mount Baker gold rushgoldmetal1897 – mid-1920sNome Gold Rushgoldmetal1899–1909Fairbanks Gold RushgoldmetalTexas oil boompetroleumfossil fuel1901 – 1940sCobalt silver rushsilvermetal1903 – c. 1930Stoy, Illinois oil boompetroleumfossil fuel1906–1910Porcupine Gold Rushgoldmetal1909 – 1950sKakamega gold rushgoldmetalVatukoula gold rushgoldmetal1932Second Amazon rubber boomrubberagriculturalAmazon basin1942–1945Alberta conventional oil boompetroleumfossil fuel1947 – 1980New Zealand wool boomwoolagriculturalNew Zealand1951 – late 1950scannabisagriculturalColombia1974–1985Mexican oil boompetroleumfossil fuelMexico1977–19811970s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide1970sCocaine eracocaineagriculturalColombia1985–1994Merluza boomfishhard commodityChile1980sChilean salmon boomfishsoft commodityChile1986–2007Bolivian gas boomnatural gasfossil fuelBolivia2001 – 20142000s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide2000sUranium bubble of 2007uraniummetalworldwide2005–2007North Dakota oil boompetroleum, shale gasfossil fuel2006 – c. 2015Rhodium bubblerhodiummetalworldwide 20082020s commodities boommultiplemultipleworldwide2020s