** Copper miners fall tracking price of the red metal
** Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange down 0.9% at $8,978.5 a metric ton ** Copper prices fall with sentiment dominated by a stronger dollar and worries about demand in top consumer China, partly fuelled by uncertainty over U.S. tariffs on imports
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto
and BHP Group drop 0.6% each
** Copper miners Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan down 2.5% and 1.4%, respectively
** Canadian miners Teck Resources , First Quantum Minerals , Ero Copper and Hudbay Minerals
down between 1.7% and 3.4%
(Reporting by Tanay Dhumal in Bengaluru) ((Tanay.Dhumal@thomsonreuters.com; Twitter: ))
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