Australian miners fall as copper prices slip

BHP

24/09/2026 03:54

** Australian miners .AXMM fall as much as 2.5%, their biggest intraday pct drop since Sept 15
** Miners fall on the back of a drop in red metal prices, on profit-taking and pressure from a stronger dollar MET/L
** Behemoth BHP Group BHP.AX falls 1.8% after operations at BHP's Escondida mine in Chile were suspended on Wednesday after a worker was killed in an accident  
** Rio Tinto RIO.AX slips 1% 
** YTD, AXMM up 14.5% 

 (Reporting by Aamir Sheik Khalid in Bengaluru)
 ((Aamir.SheikKhalid@thomsonreuters.com))