** U.S.-listed shares of copper miners fall premarket, tracking lower prices of the red metal MET/L
** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange down 1.6% at $11,742/ton, following a 1.9% drop earlier in the session, its lowest since December 19
** Copper prices slid to more than three-month lows as fresh escalation in the Middle East war pushed oil prices higher
** Global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N fall 2.8% and 1.6%, respectively
** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down 3.1% and 3.3%, respectively
** Canada's Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO, HBM.N slides 3.7%, Ero Copper ERO.TO, ERO.N down 3.9% and Teck Resources TECKb.TO, TECK.N falls 4.5%
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com;))
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