"No doubt nothing but the olive oil/salt mix turning to mineral deposits"

Don't be so sure about this. Cholesterol is a fat-soluble steroid alcohol and if it has not become calcified it could be in a semi-solid state that might liquify if left on an absorbent surface.

yes, and don't forget the people like me who have done the flush without the salts and got the same results, as well as the people who have used different oils. Or even the guy who had a very rich fatty meal at a restaurant in Italy and passed exactly the same green stones!! (His wife's posting is on this site somewhere).

Doctors will tell you that stones don't melt but they are talking about the calcified ones. One guy on this site had his stones tested and the pathologists had to order special chemicals to analyse them as they don't usually do this. Apparently they start to break down once they are in the air and bacteria sets in.

I put mine in for testing and they refused to test them and just said they were not gall stones as they are low melting point fatty material. Next time I do a big flush I'm going back to demand they tell me what this "fatty material" is! Some lab report. But the fact that others (more than one) have had successful lab reports done is encouraging!

SASS, you may want to think about taking something to break down the stone first, like the apple juice cleanse. (check out "Cleansing" link. Or Chinese herb: Golden Coin Grass that some are taking.