BUZZ-Copper miners fall after red metal retreats on profit taking

Reuters05-23

** 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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