This is a list of economic booms created by physical commodities.
| Boom | Commodity | Type | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| agricultural | 1687–1810 | |||
| metal | ||||
| metal | ||||
| metal | 1828 – early 1840s | |||
| metal | 1830–1850 | |||
| 1845 – c. 1870 | ||||
| metal | 1848–1855 | |||
| agricultural | ||||
| metal | 1850–1941 | |||
| metal | Australia | 1851–1906 | ||
| 1859 – early 1870s | ||||
| metal | 1860s | |||
| metal | 1861–64 | |||
| metal | 1864–1867 | |||
| metal | 1870s | |||
| fossil fuel | 1870s | |||
| metal | 1874 – c. 1880 | |||
| agricultural | ||||
| metal | 1870s – 1880s | |||
| metal | ||||
| Bodie gold rush | metal | 1877–1880 | ||
| agricultural | 1879–1912 | |||
| Canadian wheat boom | wheat | agricultural | [1] [2] | |
| fossil fuel | ||||
| fossil fuel | 1880s – 1930s | |||
| metal | 1883–1906 | |||
| metal | 1886 | |||
| metal | 1896–1899 | |||
| metal | 1897 – mid-1920s | |||
| metal | 1899–1909 | |||
| metal | ||||
| fossil fuel | 1901 – 1940s | |||
| metal | 1903 – c. 1930 | |||
| fossil fuel | 1906–1910 | |||
| metal | 1909 – 1950s | |||
| metal | ||||
| Vatukoula gold rush | metal | 1932 | ||
| agricultural | 1942–1945 | |||
| fossil fuel | 1947 – 1980 | |||
| agricultural | 1951 – late 1950s | |||
| fossil fuel | 1977–1981 | |||
| multiple | multiple | worldwide | 1970s | |
| Merluza boom[3] [4] | fish | Chile | 1980s | |
| Chilean salmon boom[5] [6] | fish | Chile | 1986–2007 | |
| multiple | multiple | worldwide | 2000s | |
| metal | worldwide | 2005–2007 | ||
| fossil fuel | 2006 – c. 2015 | |||
| Rhodium bubble[7] | metal | worldwide (primarily South Africa, Russia) | 2008 | |
| multiple | multiple | worldwide | 2020s | |
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