** Shares of copper miners fall, tracking lower prices of the red metal
** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange $(LME.AU)$ down 0.4% at $9,840 a metric ton
** Copper prices edged lower as investors digested mixed factory data from top metals consumer China and progress in trade talks between Canada and the United States
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants: Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N down 1.2% and 1.5%, respectively
** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N each down 1.2%
** Canadian miners Ero Copper ERO.TO falls 1.3% and Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO down 1.6%
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com;))
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