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%