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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 1830–1850
Guano Era guano hard 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 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 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 boom wheat agricultural Canada, 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 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 [ 4] [ 5] fish hard commodity Chile 1980s
Chilean salmon boom [ 6] [ 7] 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 , US2006 – c. 2015
Rhodium bubble[ 8] rhodium metal worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia) 2008
2020s commodities boom multiple multiple worldwide 2020s
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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. Uranium bubble of 2007[ 1] 
