The paper discusses the effect of particulate additions on the friction and wear of short basalt fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites. Particles of titanium oxide, barium sulphate and silicon carbide were mixed with the epoxy resin prior to composing with short basalt fiber. Samples were prepared with varying titanium oxide, barium sulphate and silicon carbide content and percentage of basalt fiber. Tests were performed on samples to obtain the friction and wear of the composites with varying the applied load and the sliding time. It was found that titanium oxide, barium sulphate and silicon carbide have an important impact on the wear and friction properties of the basalt fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites. A nearly linear relationship between the wear load and the sliding time was obtained following an incubation period. The wear increased with load and time increase, but the increase of the amount of titanium oxide, barium sulphate and silicon carbide in the composite brought about its decrease irrespectively of the applied load and sliding time due to increase of the matrix materials wear resistance. However, friction increased only with sliding time increase but decreased with increase of titanium oxide, barium sulphate and silicon carbide particles content irrespectively of time. © 2017 2017