Extraction of spilled methylamine from mud I was reading this question about Breaking Bad on the Movies &amp; TV Stack Exchange site and I'm wondering:

If you spill dirt in methylamine, can you extract the methylamine back out?

My very basic level of understanding leads me to believe that if you heat the resulting mud, you should be able to dry out the dirt and return it to its normal state, and likely create some type of vapor.  But, I'm probably completely wrong.

So, is this possible?
The wording of the question (and confirmed in a comment) suggest a major problem with the scene in question. If mixing dirt with methylamine made mud, then it was either some solution of dissolved methylamine, or liquid methylamine, but not a solid methylamine salt like methylamine hydrochloride. The first scenario wouldn't make sense for the synthesis of methamphetamine, and the second case is the real problem: methylamine boils at -6oC.  

Assuming they had a solution containing methylamine that had become contaminated with dirt, the recovery would actually be pretty easy. Because methylamine has such a low boiling point, simply basifying the solution during distillation would readily separate the methylamine from anything else that could be present in the contamination.