BUZZ — Australian miners fall as copper prices slip

* Australian miners 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 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 slips 1% * YTD, AXMM up 14.5% (Reporting by Aamir Sheik Khalid in Bengaluru) ((Aamir.SheikKhalid@thomsonreuters.com)