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No, only the elements up to Uranium (Z=92) occur naturally on Earth. The rest have only been made synthetically, because of their radioactivity which renders them unstable and thus unable to exist naturally. The synthetically made elements are called transuranic elements.

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Of the first 92 elements in the Periodic Table, only 90 are found in nature. The two "holes" belong to the elements with atomic numbers 43 (technetium, Tc) and 61 (promethium, Pm). These two elements have only radioactive varieties (isotopes), all of which decay away in relatively short times on a geologic scale. There are no stable forms of either.

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I would believe that it is about 85% of the 112 elements occurs in nature.

90, technetium and promethium are radioactive with short halflives, they do not occur naturally.

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Only 98 of the elements on the periodic table occur naturally. The rest are man-made.

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