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Nobelium does not occur in nature, and it has no isotopes that last long enough to allow significant quantities to be accumulated.  It is essentially a laboratory curiosity.
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Sample from the Everest Set. 
Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples.  At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay.  The samples (except gases) weigh about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid. 
 
Radioactive elements like this one are represented in this particular set by a non-radioactive dummy powder, which doesn't look anything like the real element.  (In this case a sample of the pure element isn't really practical anyway since the element exists as a short-lived laboratory curiosity only.) 
 
To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order. 
 
Source: Rob Accurso 
Contributor: Rob Accurso 
Acquired: 7 February, 2003 
Text Updated: 29 January, 2009 
Price: Donated 
Size: 0.2" 
Purity: 0%
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Poster sample. 
This photograph of Alfred Nobel appears in my Photographic Periodic Table Poster representing nobelium, which is named after him.  This highly unstable element can't reasonably be photographed, and a picture of its namesake seemed like a reasonable alternative.  The sample photograph includes text exactly as it appears in the poster, which you are encouraged to buy a copy of. 
  
This photo is Copyright (c) The Nobel Foundation, used with permission. 
Source: Max Whitby of RGB 
Contributor: Max Whitby of RGB 
Acquired: 15 April, 2006 
Text Updated: 4 May, 2007 
Price: Donated 
Size: 6" 
Purity: 0%
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