目前，铜尾矿已在污染喜马拉雅藏民圣地，即白玛岗，世界海拔最高的大河雅鲁藏布江在这里沿着喜马拉雅山脉绕了一个大弯，流入印度。
Already, copper mine tailings are polluting waters in a Himalayan region sacred to Tibetans, which they call Pemako (“Hidden Lotus Land”), where the world’s highest-altitude major river, the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo to Tibetans), curves around the Himalayas before entering India.