• U.S.-listed shares of copper miners rise premarket, tracking higher prices of the red metal [MET/L]

• Benchmark three-month copper on London Metal Exchange up 1.7% to $13,851 a metric ton

• Copper prices supported by firm demand in top consumer China, declining inventories and hopes that mediators can revive a ceasefire in the Iran war

• Shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Group gain 1.4% and ~3%, respectively

• Copper miners Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan up 3.4% and ~4%, respectively

• Canada's Hudbay Minerals up 4%, Ero Copper advances ~6% and Teck Resources

gains ~2%

(Reporting by Dharna Bafna in Bengaluru)