** U.S.- listed shares of copper miners rise premarket, tracking price of the red metal MET/L
** Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 up 0.8% at $12,519.50 per metric ton
** Prices rise as a weaker U.S. dollar continues to lend support
** Global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N up 1.1% and 1.4%, respectively
** Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N gain 2.8% and 2.2%, respectively
** Canada's Hudbay Minerals HBM.N, HBM.TO up 2.3%, Teck Resources TECK.N, TECKb.TO rises 2.6% and Ero Copper ERO.N, ERO.TO gains 2.5%
(Reporting by Pranav Mathur in Bengaluru)
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