A widely-respected Aboriginal Elder has been left devastated and distressed after death threats and racial slurs were posted around his remote home.

Leo Thomas works on the small pastoral homestead at Pinjin Station situated 140 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie, in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.

He claims he is the target of a nasty scare tactics being used by Melbourne-based mining company Hawthorn Resources, who is reportedly at odds with his station which is run under Aboriginal patrol company Tisala Pty Ltd.

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A respected Aboriginal Elder is devastated after racial abuse was left at his home (pictured)

Leo Thomas (pictured) works on a small pastoral homestead in the Goldfields region of WA

He claims he is the target of scare campaign being used by a mining company

'In all my lifetime, I have never encountered a company who has been so disrespectful towards us as Aboriginal people,' Mr Thomas claimed to NITV News.

Mr Thomas and his nephew Lawrence allege they have been receiving 'disgraceful' racial abuse from Hawthorn Resources since 2015.

He says it is utterly sickening but Mr Thomas' family have always tried to look forward.

Mr Thomas does not have any proof the posters are being put up by the mining company but claims the messages he receives mention the Minister for Mining, mining operations and past experiences with the company, SBS reported.

One poster states: 'Minister Johnston and DMIRS (Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety) support us'. So eat out dust + put up with noise or p**s off.'

Hawthorn Resources who operate the nearby mine say the matter is for police

Mr Thomas and his nephew Lawrence allege they have been receiving 'disgraceful' racial abuse from Hawthorn Resources since 2015

Another reads: 'Black nigars [sic] holding up mine' and, 'we destroy black nigars [sic]'.

Mr Thomas has had enough of the 'sickening, abhorrent and disgusting' waves of abuse, and the matter makes him sick.

'I am concerned I would be far better off going and living in Afghanistan or Syria or just committing suicide and anyone whom just looks at these posters can gauge the total seriousness,' Mr Thomas said.

Hawthorm Resources told NITV News in a statement: 'Management of Hawthorn Resources Limited, in its capacity as Manager of the Trouser Legs Mining Joint Venture, confirms that a number of threatening and highly offensive signs have been placed on Crown Land immediately adjacent to its mining lease at the Trouser Leg Gold Project, approximately 140 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie'.

The mining company is reportedly at odds with his station which is run under Aboriginal patrol company Tisala Pty Ltd

'Given this matter has been reported to and is now before the Western Australian Police Force the Company has no further comment.'

West Australian Minister for Mining and Petroleum, Bill Johnston said he is aware of the ongoing turmoil between the station owners and the mining company but racial abuse is not a matter within his scope.

He told NITV News he has been in correspondence with station owners and had meetings with them.

'The department of mines has regularly sent inspectors out and I would expect the department to take the appropriate legal action if any element of the mine act in Western Australia aren't being complied with.'