** Shares of copper miners fall, tracking prices of red metal

** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange down 0.2% at $9,579 a metric ton

** Copper prices ease on a stronger U.S. dollar, and signs of easing import demand in China offset support from tighter nearby supply in the London Metal Exchange's system

** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N fall 1.1% and 1.2%, respectively

** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down 1.3% and 1.5%, respectively

** Canadian miners: Teck Resources TECKb.TO dips 1.6% and First Quantum Minerals FM.TO down 1.1%

(Reporting by Sumit Saha in Bengaluru)

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