From left: Robert Venables, Liz Cornejo, Pete Condon, Jacinda Mack, Kyle Mosell, Jim Calvin, Kendra Zamzow, and Russ White answered questions at Sunday’s panel discussion. Kyle Clayton photo.

Last weekend’s Chilkat Valley Mining Forum drew a large crowd Saturday and Sunday where scientists, an economic researcher and an individual whose community and watershed was impacted by a mining disaster spoke.

Saturday opened with a Mining 101 course where Lynn Canal Geologic Services’ Russ White and…