Copper miners fall on lower price of red metal

Shares of copper miners fall, tracking lower prices of the red metal

Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange down 1% at $12,686 a metric ton

Global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N down 2.1% and BHP Group BHP.N down ~2%

Southern Copper SCCO.N down 1.6%

Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down 2.5%, hurt by lower copper production in Q4

Canada's Teck Resources TECKb.TO, TECK.N down 1.5% and Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO down marginally