** Shares of copper miners rise, tracking the red metal's prices

** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on London Metal Exchange up 0.4% at $9,733.5 per metric ton

** Copper prices rise driven by optimism ahead of U.S.-China trade talks to be held later in the day

** U.S.-listed shares of global mining company BHP Group BHP.AX up 1%

** Southern Copper SCCO.N rises 1.7% and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N gains 2.5%

** Canadian miners Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO and Teck Resources TECKb.TO rise 1.7% each

(Reporting by Sumit Saha in Bengaluru)

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