Ask yourself this: have you ever held a magnet? Then there has been a magnet in your environment.

If you mean to ask if there are naturally ocurring magnets, the answer is also yes. Neodymium and Samarium-Cobalt are the two most common.

1. Neodymium magnet
2. Ferrite magnet
3. Alnico magnet
4. Samarium cobalt magnet
5. Ceramic magnet

Magnets are typically composed of materials such as iron, cobalt, and nickel. These materials have aligned magnetic domains that create the magnetic field of the magnet. Other materials like neodymium and samarium can also be used to create strong permanent magnets.

Cobalt is ferromagnetic, but considerably less so than iron. Alloys of cobalt such as aluminium, nickel, cobalt and iron, known as Alnico, and of samarium and cobalt (samarium-cobalt magnet) are commonly used to make high quality permanent magnets.