** Shares of copper miners rise tracking higher price of the red metal
** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange up 1.7% at $10,027 a metric ton
** Copper prices rise as traders bought to ship to the United States, where President Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on imports of the industrial metal
** U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N climb 1.8% and 1.3%, respectively
** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N up 4.1% and 2.8%, respectively
** Canadian miners Teck Resources TECKb.TO up 2%, First Quantum Minerals FM.TO up 1.5%, Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO up 3.7% and Ero Copper ERO.TO up 2%
(Reporting by Tanay Dhumal in Bengaluru)
((Tanay.Dhumal@thomsonreuters.com; Twitter: https://twitter.com/TanayDhumal))
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