** Copper miners fall, tracking price of the red metal
** Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange $(LME.UK)$ down 1.5% at $9,648 a metric ton
** Copper prices sank to a three-week low pressured by confusion about the scale of stimulus measures in top metals consumer China, and geopolitical uncertainty
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto
and BHP Group drop 1.9% and 1.8%, respectively
** Copper miners Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan down 3.1% and 1.8%, respectively
** Canadian miners Hudbay Minerals down 4.3%, Ero Copper falls 4.8%, First Quantum Minerals down 4.4% and Teck Resources down 2.2%
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com;))
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