Copper miners down on stronger U.S. dollar, muted demand from China

** Shares of copper miners fall, tracking the red metal's price

** Benchmark three-month copper HG1! on London Metal Exchange down 0.6% at $10,626 a metric ton

** Copper prices fall under pressure from a stronger U.S. dollar and signs of muted demand from the world's biggest metals consumer China, although a decline in available stocks on the London Metal Exchange curbed losses

** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO and BHP Group BHP down 1.2% and 1.7%, respectively

** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO falls 4.3% and Freeport-McMoRan FCX drops 2.3%

** Canadian miners Hudbay Minerals HBM slides 7.7%, Ero Copper ERO down 9.1% and Teck Resources TECK falls 4.6%