They were hailed as battery minerals set to charge into the 2020s with electric vehicles while also playing a big part in keeping the lights on as power grids turned greener.
But some of the so-called "minerals of the future" got ahead of themselves in the last 18 months of the decade just ended. Lithium, cobalt and graphite suffered price wobbles and suddenly the foot was off the accelerator.
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Brad Thompson was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review