Lithium sells for ~$40/pound. Cobalt sells for ~$30/pound.
https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=li&u=lb&d=0
Aluminum sells for about $1.30/pound and copper sells for about $4.40/pound - and they get recycled.
Tesla is abandoning cobalt all together the largest source in the world is the DRC and it’s a Ebola ridden conflict zone I was offered directly from the government 500,000 for 6 months with 250,000 upfront to come home cobalt as a geologist all expenses paid to and from with government body guards I turned it down I’m already independently wealthy I don’t need to die for half a mil make it 4 mil and we will talk again.