The decline was broad, touching manufacturing, mining and quarrying.
Every path up Snowdon leads past abandoned mining and quarrying sites.
The three most common types of surface mining are open-pit mining, strip mining, and quarrying.
But like other countries, Britain is not immune, for example, to the un-lovely effects of open-cast mining and quarrying.
Output in the mining and quarrying sector fell by 4%, accounting for a further 0.5 percentage points of the overall industrial decline.
Minerals are widely dispersed, and, unlike other industries, mining and quarrying traditionally have been more prevalent in the south than in the north.
Later this month comes roads policy, followed by fishing, manufacturing, health and social care, media and creative, utilities and energy, rail and shipping and, come September, mining and quarrying.
The ONS data showed that within the manufacturing sector, mining and quarrying output suffered its biggest decline since records began because of maintenance on North Sea oil and gas fields.
While today's dig continues, the Caradon Hill Area Heritage Project has organised studies of alignments between the stones and stars, and the archaeologist guides walks around bronze age features that have survived centuries of mining and quarrying.
The biggest factor in the fourth-quarter decline in G.D.P. was a 10.2 percent drop in mining and quarrying output, the largest since records began in 1997, driven by disruption from extended maintenance affecting North Sea oil and gas fields.
The major industries in Uganda consist of manufacturing, constructing, mining, and quarrying electricity, gas, and water (Uganda Bureau of Statistics 2007).
