** Shares of silver miners down premarket, tracking falling prices of the white metal GOL/

** Spot silver XAG= down 0.9% at $38.69/ounce, but was still on track for a weekly gain of about 1.6%

** Silver prices were pressured by a recovery in the U.S. dollar; U.S. dollar index .DXY rebounded from more than a two-week low USD/

** Hecla Mining HL.N and Coeur Mining CDE.N down 1% and 1.1%, respectively

** Shares of Canadian miners Endeavour Silver EDR.TO, EXK.N fall 1.6% and Silvercorp Metals SVM.TO, SVM.N down marginally

** Abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF SIVR.P down marginally and iShares Silver Trust SLV.P falls 1.1%

(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)

((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com;))