List of commodity booms

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A standardized price index for tulip bulb contracts during the Tulip mania^[1]

Uranium bubble of 2007^[2]

This is a list of economic booms created by commodities.

Boom	Commodity	Location	Dates
Tulip mania	tulips	Netherlands	1636–1637
First Chilean wheat cycle	wheat	Chile	1687–1810
Brazilian Gold Rush	gold	Brazil	18th century
Carolina Gold Rush	gold	North Carolina, US	early 19th century
Georgia Gold Rush	gold	Georgia, US	1828 – early 1840s
Chilean silver rush	silver	Chile	1830–1850
Guano Era	guano	Peru	1845 – c. 1870
California Gold Rush	gold	California, US	1848–1855
Second Chilean wheat cycle	wheat	Chile	mid-19th century – 1870s
British Columbia gold rushes	gold	British Columbia, Canada	1850–1941
Australian gold rushes	gold	Australia	1851–1906
Pennsylvania oil rush	petroleum	northwestern Pennsylvania, US	1859 – early 1870s
Otago Gold Rush	gold	Central Otago, New Zealand	1860s
Colorado River mining boom	gold	Southwestern US	1861–64
West Coast Gold Rush	gold	West Coast, New Zealand	1864–1867
Lapland gold rush	gold	Lapland, Finland	1870s
Azerbaijan oil boom	petroleum	Azerbaijan	1870s
Pilgrim's Rest gold rush	gold	Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumalanga, South Africa	1873
Black Hills Gold Rush	gold	Dakota Territory, US	1874 – c. 1880
Patagonian sheep farming boom	wool, mutton	Patagonia	late 19th to early 20th century
Cripple Creek Gold Rush	gold	Cripple Creek, Colorado, US	late 19th to early 20th century
Bodie gold rush	gold	Bodie, California, US	1877–1880
First Amazon rubber boom	rubber	Amazon basin	1879–1912
Indiana gas boom	natural gas	Indiana, US	early 1880s – early 20th century
Ohio oil rush	petroleum	Northwest Ohio, US	1880s – 1930s
Tierra del Fuego gold rush	gold	Tierra del Fuego	1883–1906
Witwatersrand Gold Rush	gold	South Africa	1886
Klondike Gold Rush	gold	Klondike, Yukon, Canada	1896–1899
Mount Baker Gold Rush	gold	Whatcom County, Washington, US	1897 – mid-1920s
Nome Gold Rush	gold	Nome, Alaska, US	1899–1909
Fairbanks Gold Rush	gold	Fairbanks, Alaska, US	early 1900s
Texas oil boom	petroleum	Texas, US	1901 – 1940s
Cobalt silver rush	silver	Cobalt, Ontario, Canada	1903 – c. 1930
Stoy, Illinois oil boom	petroleum	Stoy, Illinois, US	1906–1910
Porcupine Gold Rush	gold	Northern Ontario, Canada	1909 – 1950s
Kakamega gold rush	gold	Kakamega, Kenya	early 1930s
Vatukoula gold rush	gold	Vatukoula, Fiji	1932
Second Amazon rubber boom	rubber	Amazon basin	1942–1945
Calgary oil boom	petroleum	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	1947 – early 1980s
New Zealand wool boom	wool	New Zealand	1951 – late 1950s
Mexican oil boom	petroleum	Mexico	1977–1981
Cigar boom	cigars	US	1992–1997
2000s commodities boom	multiple	worldwide	2000s
Uranium bubble of 2007	uranium	worldwide	2005–2007
North Dakota oil boom	petroleum, shale gas	North Dakota, US	2006 – present (as of 2015)
Rhodium bubble[3]	rhodium	worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia)	2008

References

1. Thompson 2007, pp. 101, 109–11
2. "NUEXCO Exchange Value (Monthly Uranium Spot)". Retrieved 9 July 2010.
3. "Historical Rhodium Charts". Kitco. Retrieved 19 February 2010.