** Copper miners fall, tracking prices of red metal, as funds take profit after prices hit a record high and depressed physical consumption
** Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange down 3.8% to $10,449 per metric ton as at 1500 GMT, dropping the most in two years
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants BHP Group
and Rio Tinto slip 3.8% and 1.2%, respectively
** Copper miners Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan down 5.4% and 6.8%, respectively
** Canadian miners Teck Resources , Ero Copper
, First Quantum Minerals and Hudbay Minerals
lose between 3.7% and 8%
(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru)
((Srivastava.Vallari@thomsonreuters.com;))
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