SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No. 1
Minerals Technologies
common stock
Cusip # 603158106
Filing Fee: No


Cusip # 603158106
Item 1:   Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID:  04-2507163)
Item 4:   Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5:   76,300
Item 6:   None
Item 7:   76,300
Item 8:   None
Item 9:   76,300
Item 11:  0.31%
Item 12:  HC 




Cusip # 603158106
Item 1:   Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d - (Tax ID:  
###-##-####)
Item 4:   United States of America
Item 5:   None
Item 6:   None
Item 7:   76,300
Item 8:   None
Item 9:   76,300
Item 11:  0.31%
Item 12:  IN 




SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)


Item 1(a).      Name of Issuer:

		Minerals Technologies

Item 1(b).      Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:

		405 Lexington Avenue
		New York, NY  10174

Item 2(a).      Name of Person Filing: 

		FMR Corp.

Item 2(b).      Address or Principal Business Office or, if None, 
Residence:

		82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts  02109

Item 2(c).      Citizenship:

		Not applicable

Item 2(d).      Title of Class of Securities:

		Common Stock

Item 2(e).      CUSIP Number:  

		603158106

Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-
2(b) and the person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent 
holding company in accordance with Section 240.13d-
1(b)(ii)(G).  (Note:  See Item 7).

Item 4. Ownership

		(a)     Amount Beneficially Owned:      76,300

		(b)     Percent of Class:       0.31%

		(c)     Number of shares as to which such person has:  

			(i)   sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
	76,300

			(ii)  shared power to vote or to direct the vote:
	None

			(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the 
disposition of: 76,300
 
			(iv)  shared power to dispose or to direct the 
disposition of: None




Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.

		If this statement is being filed to report the 
fact that as of the date hereof, the reporting 
person has ceased to be the beneficial owner of 
more than five percent of the class of securities, 
check the following (X).

Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of 
Another Person.

		Not applicable.

Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary 
Which Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the 
Parent Holding Company.

		See attached Exhibit(s) A and B.

Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the 
Group.

		Not applicable, see attached Exhibit A. 

Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.

		Not applicable.


Item 10.        Certification.

		Inasmuch as the reporting persons are no longer the 
beneficial owners of more than 5% of the number of 
shares outstanding, the reporting persons have no 
further reporting obligation under section 13(d) of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, and the 
reporting persons have no obligation to amend this 
Statement if any material change occurs in the facts 
set forth herein.


Signature

		After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my 
knowledge and belief, I certify that the information 
set forth in this statement is true, complete and 
correct. 



	February 11, 1994       
Date



	/S/Arthur S. Loring
Signature



	Arthur S. Loring, Vice 
President       
Name/Title




SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)

	Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street, 
Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR 
Corp. and a bank as defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the beneficial owner of 
76,300 shares or 0.31% of the common stock outstanding of the 
company as a result of its serving as investment manager of the 
institutional account(s).

	FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity Management Trust 
Company, has sole voting and dispositive power over 76,300 
Shares of common stock owned by the institutional account(s) as 
reported above.

	Edward C. Johnson 3d owns 34.0% of the outstanding voting 
common stock of FMR Corp.  Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR 
Corp.  Various Johnson family members and trusts for the 
benefit of Johnson family members own FMR Corp. voting common 
stock.  These Johnson family members, through their ownership 
of voting common stock, form a controlling group with respect 
to FMR Corp.



SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)

RULE 13d-1(e)  AGREEMENT

	The undersigned persons, on February 11, 1994, agree and 
consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule 
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the common 
stock of Minerals Technologies at December 31, 1993.

	FMR Corp.
	By      /S/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Vice President - Legal
		Edward C. Johnson 3d
	By      /S/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Under Power of Attorney 
dated 5/17/89
On File with Schedule 
13G for
Airborne Freight Corp. 
9/10/91
	Fidelity Management & Research 
Company
	By      /S/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Sr. V.P. and General 
Counsel