** Shares of copper miners up, tracking prices of the red metal
** Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange $(LME.UK)$ up 0.1% at $8,776.50 a metric ton, as of 1640 GMT (11:40 a.m. ET), having touched $8,757 a metric ton on Tuesday, its lowest price since Aug. 8
** Copper prices hover near five-month lows as expectations of deteriorating demand were reinforced by weak manufacturing activity around the world
** U.S. dollar firms , resuming a climb that has weighed on metal prices since the end of September; a stronger U.S. currency makes dollar-priced metals more expensive for buyers holding other currencies
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto
and BHP Group are both up marginally
** Copper miners Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan up 1.9% and 1%, respectively
** Canadian miners Ero Copper rises 2.9%, First Quantum Minerals up 2.8% and Hudbay Minerals rises 4.8%
** HBM also receives air quality permit for the Copper World project from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com;))
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