Australian miners fall as copper prices slip
24/09/2026 03:54
BUZZ-Australian miners fall as copper prices slip ** 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)
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