Can’t you get a lot of money for the minerals?
Not really. Recovering then is expensive.
Manganese is the most highest quantity mineral in most batteries but it is cheap
Lithium is the most expensive but hardest to recover.
There is a lot of work being done to improve the recycling efficiencies and eventually the market economics will balance things out. But right now it isn’t a great deal.
Recovering the minerals from lithium batteries is very energy intensive. With current IC care you just shred the whole thing and different materials are sorted automatically. EVs will need to stripped, by hand.