Form: SC 13G/A

Statement of Beneficial Ownership by Certain Investors

SC 13G/A: Statement of Beneficial Ownership by Certain Investors

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SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No. 5
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
Common Stock
Cusip # 483007100


Cusip # 483007100
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID: 04-2507163)
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 221,771
Item 6: None
Item 7: 1,820,619
Item 8: None
Item 9: 1,820,619
Item 11: 2.31%
Item 12: HC




Cusip # 483007100
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 1,820,619
Item 8: None
Item 9: 1,820,619
Item 11: 2.31%
Item 12: IN



Cusip # 483007100
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 1,820,619
Item 8: None
Item 9: 1,820,619
Item 11: 2.31%
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:

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

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

5847 San Felipe Street
Houston, TX 77057-3005

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:

483007100

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:
1,820,619

(b) Percent of Class:
2.31%

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

(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
221,771

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

(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
1,820,619

(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, B, and C.

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 five percent 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
Schedule 13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial
ownership of the common stock of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation at
September 30, 1997 is true, complete and correct.



October 10, 1997
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)

Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, Fidelity
Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
is the beneficial owner of 1,550,902 shares or 1.96% of the common stock
outstanding of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation ("the Company") as a result of
acting as investment adviser to various investment companies registered under
Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and the
funds each has sole power to dispose of the 1,550,902 shares owned by the
Funds.

Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR Corp., has
the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the shares owned directly by
the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written guidelines
established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.

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 259,717 shares or 0.33% of the common stock outstanding of
the Company as a result of its serving as investment manager of the
institutional account(s).

Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity
Management Trust Company, each has sole dispositive power over 259,717 shares
and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of 211,771 shares, and no power
to vote or to direct the voting of 47,946 shares of common stock owned by the
institutional account(s) as reported above.

Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family and trusts for their benefit
are the predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of FMR Corp.,
representing approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson
3d owns 12.0% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and Abigail
P. Johnson is a Director of FMR Corp. The Johnson family group and all other
Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Class B shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of
Class B shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock
and the execution of the shareholders' voting agreement, members of the
Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to
form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.

Fidelity International Limited, Pembroke Hall, 42 Crowlane, Hamilton,
Bermuda, and various foreign-based subsidiaries provide investment advisory
and management services to a number of non-U.S. investment companies (the
"International Funds") and certain institutional investors. Fidelity
International Limited is the beneficial owner of 10,000 shares or 0.01% of the
common stock outstanding of the Company. Additional information with respect
to the beneficial ownership of Fidelity International Limited is shown on
Exhibit B, page 1.


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


Pursuant to instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, this Exhibit has been
prepared to identify Fidelity International Limited, Pembroke Hall, 42 Crow
Lane, Hamilton, Bermuda, a Bermudian joint stock company incorporated for an
unlimited duration by private act of the Bermuda Legislature (FIL) and an
investment adviser to various investment companies (the "International Funds")
and certain institutional investors, as a beneficial owner of the 10,000
shares or 0.01% of the common stock outstanding of Kaiser Aluminum
Corporation.

Prior to June 30, 1980, FIL was a majority-owned subsidiary of Fidelity
Management & Research Company (Fidelity), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR
Corp. On that date, the shares of FIL held by Fidelity were distributed, as a
dividend, to the shareholders of FMR Corp. FIL currently operates as an