Hot springs occur just north of Ely along the west edge of Steptoe Valley. The northernmost five springs in NE¼ Sec. 3, Tl6N, R63E, are called the Lackawanna Hot Springs. They flow and have temperatures variously reported as 21°C and 32-35°C. In 1966 the water was being used in the Silver King Mines mill. (Eakin and others, 1967; and Holmes, 1966, p. 21). The springs are reportedly along a Quaternary fault (C. dePolo, unpubl. fault map, ca. 1990). The flow rate in 1981 was 511 L/m (Robinson and others, 1981, p. 31). Mariner and others (1982, p. 46). estimated the reservoir temperature to be 40ºC.
The Ely Warm Springs, to the south in Sec. 10, had a flow rate of 100 L/min and temperature of 29.4°C and a flow rate of 614 L/min in April 1918, although later reports noted the discharge to be between 83-87 L/min (Robinson and others, 1981, p. 32; Reed and others, 1982, p. 45). There are no spring deposits at the springs, but "tufa" occurs nearby (Clark and others, 1920, p. 43, 46). In some cases the name "Ely Warm Springs" has been used for all the springs in this zone including the Lackawanna Springs.