** Shares of copper miners fall, tracking lower prices of the red metal
** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange $(LME.AU)$ fell 0.6% to $9,555 a metric ton, as the market focused on the negative consequences for global economic growth and industrial metals demand from U.S. import tariffs
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N down marginally and BHP Group BHP.N fall 1%
** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down 3% and 6%, respectively
** Canadian miners Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO down 5.6%, Teck Resources TECKb.TO fall ~6% and First Quantum FM.TO slips ~5%
(Reporting by Katha Kalia in Bengaluru)
((Katha.Kalia@thomsonreuters.com))
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