Nov 11 (Reuters) - India's Hindalco Industries

, one of the country's largest aluminium and copper

producers, posted a higher-than-expected second-quarter profit

on Monday, helped by higher aluminium prices.

The company, owned by the Aditya Birla Group, said its

consolidated net profit jumped 78% to 39.09 billion rupees

($463.3 million) for the three months ended Sept. 30, beating

estimates.

Analysts, on average, had expected a profit of 34.46 billion

rupees, according to data compiled by LSEG.

($1 = 84.3700 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Anuran Sadhu in Bengaluru; Editing by Sumana

Nandy and Abinaya Vijayaraghavan)