** Copper miners fall tracking price of the red metal

** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange down 0.6% to $9,877 a metric ton

** Copper prices fall under pressure from a stronger dollar

** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP BHP.N drop 2.1% and 1.1%, respectively

** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down 2.4% and 3.3%, respectively

** Canadian miners First Quantum Minerals FM.TO down 1.2%, Teck Resources TECKb.TO down 3.2% and Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO down 4.7%

(Reporting by Tanay Dhumal in Bengaluru)

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