"Fight people, fight," Tuanku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandar, who is married to the Pahang crown prince, said on her Instagram account.
She said this while sharing multiple news paper clippings on the mining which is engulfing areas around Kuantan in red dust and discolouring the waterways.
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"I have been frothing in the mouth speaking about this. I too have a home in Pantai Balok and the beach in front of our home is now red," Tuanku Azizah Aminah said.
The waters at Pantai Balok and the connected inlets adopted a reddish tint following the spike in mining activities, hurting local fishermen.
She added that the government is not the only one at fault.
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Illegal miners and landowners who allow mining activities on their land are also to blame, Tuanku Azizah Aminah said.
The cabinet has called for a halt on bauxite mining but the Pahang government has the final say.
The Pahang government has been clamping down on illegal mines, and earlier said it would work with the federal government on a plan to address the issue.
However, critics are calling on the state government to impose a moratorium on all mining.
This is especially during the monsoon season, for fear that processing ponds may overrun and flood residential areas with metal-laden water.
The fight against bauxite mining has been an uphill one for dissenting locals and has turned local landowners who rent out their land to the miners into overnight millionaires.
Malaysian bauxite export spiked 1,100 percent year-on-year in 2014 to become China's top supplier, after Indonesia banned exports to encourage the growth of the local aluminum industry.
Exporters are now mostly shipping out raw ore, but purifying the material will fetch a price of more than 20 times more, at US$43.5 (RM186) per tonne as at early December.
Bauxite washing generates large amounts of waste water that is often poorly stored and it seeps into rivers, potentially poisoning them with heavy metals and further deepening Kuantan's growing woes.
Read Malaysiakini 's special reports on bauxite mining:
Part 1: Greed, gangs and violence in Kuantan's bauxite rush
Part 2: How to bauxite rush is taking a toll on Kuantan's future
