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The battery bypass slowing nickel’s boom

Peter Ker
Peter KerResources reporter

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When it comes to battery minerals, every dog has its day on Elon Musk’s Twitter feed.

In 2016 he was pushing back against a lithium price boom when he declared that nickel and graphite were the true heroes of his batteries, and lithium was just “the salt on the salad”.

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Peter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com

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