An OH-rich topaz, Al 2 SiO 4 F 1.4 OH 0.6 , occurring in a kyanite quartzite of the Sulu UHP terrane (eastern China) has been optically and chemically (electron microprobe) characterised and its crystal structure refined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. Anisotropic refinement converged to R = 0.024 in the Pbnm space group with cell parameters a = 4.6696(8) A, b = 8.8486(17) A, c = 8.3915(22) A. The position of the hydrogen atom has been detected; because the OH → F substitution is less than 50 %, the disorder of H does not lower the overall symmetry. The influence of the OH → F substitution on the lattice parameters is discussed in terms of crystal structure and shown to affect primarily the a and b cell edges; instead c is almost constant. A critical revision of earlier linear correlations of the F content ( w f ) vs the lattice parameters and the availability of new data recently published, allowed to obtain improved regression lines for w f vs a ( r 2 = 0.982) and b ( r 2 = 0.968) cell edges.
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