 In 1994, Acuña and her husband bought 27 hectares of land in Tragadero Grande, Sorochuco District, province of Celendin, department of Cajamaraca.This is three hours from the main town of Celendin, on the pathway to one of the four lakes which the Yanacocha mine has sought access to, in order to expand into the Conga open pit mine.The Newmont Mining Corporation said in 2015 that it had purchased their property from the local community in 1997.