** Shares of copper miners fall, tracking red metal's price

** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on London Metal Exchange down 0.6% at $9,736 per metric ton, having touched its weakest since July 18 at $9,720.50

** Copper prices drifted to lowest in more than one week as inventories climbed and investors worried about looming U.S. tariffs hitting demand

** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N down 2.3% and 1.8%, respectively

** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N fall 1.9% and ~1%, respectively

** Canadian miners Ero Copper ERO.TO down ~1%, Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO falls 1.3% and Teck Resources TECKb.TO down marginally

(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)

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