** Shares of silver miners up, tracking rising prices of the metal GOL/

** Spot silver XAG= up ~1% at $37.751/ounce, buoyed by a softer U.S. dollar

** The U.S. dollar index .DXY was down 0.1% after it hit a more than one-week high earlier in the session USD/

** Hecla Mining HL.N rises 1.1% and Coeur Mining CDE.N up marginally

** Canadian miners Endeavour Silver EDR.TO up 1.2% and Silvercorp Metals SVM.TO up 1.5%

** Abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF SIVR.P and iShares Silver Trust SLV.P up 1% each

(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)

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