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This is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.
Boom | Commodity | Type | Location | Dates |
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First Chilean wheat cycle | wheat | agricultural | Chile | 1687β1810 |
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 β early 1840s |
Chilean silver rush | silver | metal | Chile | 1830β1850 |
Guano Era | guano | soft commodity | Peru | 1845 β c. 1870 |
California Gold Rush | gold | metal | California, US | 1848β1855 |
Second Chilean wheat cycle | wheat | agricultural | Chile | mid-19th century β 1870s |
British Columbia gold rushes | gold | metal | British Columbia, Canada | 1850β1941 |
Australian gold rushes | gold | metal | Australia | 1851β1906 |
Pennsylvania oil rush | petroleum | fossil fuel | northwestern Pennsylvania, US | 1859 β early 1870s |
Otago Gold Rush | gold | metal | Central Otago, New Zealand | 1860s |
Colorado River mining boom | gold | metal | Southwestern US | 1861β64 |
West Coast Gold Rush | gold | metal | West Coast, New Zealand | 1864β1867 |
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 β c. 1880 |
Patagonian sheep farming boom | wool, mutton | agricultural | Patagonia | late 19thββto early 20th century |
Coromandel Gold Rushes | gold | metal | Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand | 1870s β 1880s |
Cripple Creek Gold Rush | gold | metal | Cripple Creek, Colorado, US | late 19thββto early 20th century |
Bodie gold rush | gold | metal | Bodie, California, US | 1877β1880 |
First Amazon rubber boom | rubber | agricultural | Amazon basin | 1879β1912 |
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 β early 20th century |
Ohio oil rush | petroleum | fossil fuel | Northwest Ohio, US | 1880s β 1930s |
Tierra del Fuego gold rush | gold | metal | Tierra del Fuego | 1883β1906 |
Witwatersrand Gold Rush | gold | metal | South Africa | 1886 |
Klondike Gold Rush | gold | metal | Klondike, Yukon, Canada | 1896β1899 |
Mount Baker Gold Rush | gold | metal | Whatcom County, Washington, US | 1897 β mid-1920s |
Nome Gold Rush | gold | metal | Nome, Alaska, US | 1899β1909 |
Fairbanks Gold Rush | gold | metal | Fairbanks, Alaska, US | early 1900s |
Texas oil boom | petroleum | fossil fuel | Texas, US | 1901 β 1940s |
Cobalt silver rush | silver | metal | Cobalt, Ontario, Canada | 1903 β c. 1930 |
Stoy, Illinois oil boom | petroleum | fossil fuel | Stoy, Illinois, US | 1906β1910 |
Porcupine Gold Rush | gold | metal | Northern Ontario, Canada | 1909 β 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 | 1942β1945 |
Alberta conventional oil boom | petroleum | fossil fuel | Alberta, Canada | 1947 β 1980 |
New Zealand wool boom | wool | agricultural | New Zealand | 1951 β late 1950s |
Mexican oil boom | petroleum | fossil fuel | Mexico | 1977β1981 |
1970s commodities boom | multiple | multiple | worldwide | 1970s |
2000s commodities boom | multiple | multiple | worldwide | 2000s |
Uranium bubble of 2007 | uranium | metal | worldwide | 2005β2007 |
North Dakota oil boom | petroleum, shale gas | fossil fuel | North Dakota, US | 2006 β c. 2015 |
Rhodium bubble | rhodium | metal | worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia) | 2008 |
2020s commodities boom | multiple | multiple | worldwide | 2020s |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "NUEXCO Exchange Value (Monthly Uranium Spot)". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ Ward, Tony (1994). "The Origins of the Canadian Wheat Boom, 1880-1910". The Canadian Journal of Economics. 27 (4): 865β883. doi:10.2307/136188. JSTOR 136188.
- ^ Bertram, "Gordon W." (1973). "The Relevance of the Wheat Boom in Canadian Economic Growth". The Canadian Journal of Economics. 6 (4): 545β566. doi:10.2307/134090. JSTOR 134090.
- ^ "Historical Rhodium Charts". Kitco. Retrieved 19 February 2010.