text: """ This module creates a pandas dataframe containing the USGS
  data from this repository, currently only for the example of
  lithium.
  
  """
  
  import pathlib
  import pandas as pd
  import numpy as np
  
  DATA_PATH = pathlib.Path(__file__).parents[1].joinpath('data')
  
  def scrape_data():
  
      data = {}
      data['lithium'] = pd.read_csv(
          DATA_PATH.joinpath('lithium/lithium_summary.csv'),
          skipinitialspace=True,
          dtype=float,
          delimiter=','
      )
  
      return data
  