How would digestion work for an alien species with a diet of minerals?

If an alien species ate minerals (aka a lithovore species), how might their bodies differ from ours? How would they eat/digest the materials? Do those answsers change if they eat substances like diamond versus metals like gold?

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How would digestion work for an alien species with a diet of minerals?

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