About us
A barite supply chain expert
SMBM is a mining company based in Morocco, north Africa. With its 20 years’ experience in the barite market inside the kingdom, it has built a strong partnership with local communities and companies in the field and becomes an uncontestable partner for all commodity traders.
Chief Operating Officer
Ameskane Tarik
History
Activities started in raw barite trade in 1990 by the founder Ameskane Mohamed, as a family run business and continued with the production plant that was completed in 2017 by Ame Tarik in the industrial zone, south of Ouarzazate, the solar city of Morocco. By the end of 2018, the company started a diversification policy and extends its offer to Lead and Copper mining projects, the total annual production capacity of the plant has been increased and a new lead processing facility installed.
Starting Raw Barite activities
in Morocco
First mining permit aquisition in the late 90’s by the founder Ameskane Mohamed in Ouarzazate region south of Morocco
Developing partnership & potfolio assets
A. Tarik take on management responsibilities of the company and start mining portfolio diversification, upgrading machines and investing in human capital developement.
Barite Plant
A crushing, grinding and gravity processing facility was lanched to improve quality ore and increase production volumes.
Starting Copper projects
Permits acquisition, Road access, Geophysics Survey, Trenching programs achieved and promising results discovered
COMPANY PROFIL
SMBM’s barite business model is built on long-term partnership and trust with our teams, clients and supplier.
A barite ore expert and a modern management team, applying direct communication, social responsability and community integration.
Our Vision & Mission
Vision
Our vision is to develop modern benefication processing and improve cost efficiency all over the mining supply chain in our assets.
Mission
Our mission is to provide a high quality Barite to our customers and implementing quality standards to our shipments.
Mining photos and landscapes through the south easth of Morocco and Agadir region.
SMBM gallerie photos from the mine to the vessel, we manage the logistic & quality of your shipment. the inspections by our teams and a third party Quality Certification SGS type.