Output in mining, the category that includes oil and gas drilling, fell 0.4percentt in August.
In the other major industry groups in the industrial output report, mining grew slightly less than a percentage point, and utility production fell 1.9percentt in July.
Those sectors witnessing the biggest decrease in output - mining and quarrying, construction and accommodation, and food services - form 14% of Scotland's economy compared with 12% of the UK's, it said.
he agricultural sector contributes about 20% to the country's economic output whereas mining accounts for just less than 10%.
Capacity utilization, which measures how close to full output factories, mines and utilities are operating, fell to 81.6percentt from 82.1percentt.
The Federal Reserve's monthly report on industrial production showed that output by mines, factories and utilities fell 0.1percentt last month after an upwardly revised gain of 0.4percentt in September.
In 1982-83, the desert city of Piura was flooded for four months, the cotton crop of the nearby valleys was washed away, and mudslides cut roads and railways in the Andes, hindering the transport of output from mines.
Electric and gas utility production increased, while mining output declined.
The ONS said total production, which includes mining, output from the North Sea, energy supply and manufacturing, increased by 0.1% from May to June.
Hurricanes and tropical storms hurt oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, driving down mining output 1.3percentt in July.
In the numerical example, the industrialized region requires the output of the mining sector as an intermediate input; however, it has no mining sector as it has no ore reserves.
