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BUZZ-Glencore leads losses across UK mining cos

** Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) in UK miners among top FTSE 100 fallers as prices of metals continue to be battered by yuan devaluation

** Glencore (Xetra: A1JAGV - news) down 5.5 pct at record lows, second-largest loser in Europe's benchmark Stoxx 600 ; JP Morgan cuts pt to 210p from 230p, keeps rating "underweight"

** Glencore stock down 52 pct in last year; poised for worst 2-day fall since Jan

** Other base metals miners Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO.L - news) , BHP, Antofagasta (Other OTC: ANFGF - news) , Anglo down 2.5-3.4 pct

** Among FTSE midcaps, Vedanta, Lonmin , and Petra down about 3.5 pct, among top losers

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** FTSE 350 mining index at lows last seen in 2009

** Prices of London nickel, copper and aluminum at 6-yr lows as jitters intensified that China's currency devaluation would corrode demand (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)